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What’s Six Plus Hold'em all about?

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  • Six Plus Hold'em could be the future of Poker. Due to its potential appeal to recreational players, Six Plus Hold'em could one day become more popular than Texas Hold'em Poker. The game of Six Plus Hold'em follows the same rules as Texas Hold'em with a few differences.
Everyone has been hyped up about this new game that arrived to the Macau tables where Ivey and Dwan play, called Six Plus Hold’em. At the first glance, it looks like a very exciting and attractive game for new players! This just might be the new Chris Moneymaker in terms of attracting the fun players to play online, and the good thing is, if you know how to play Texas Hold’em well, you’ll have an easy transition to this new game mode.
It’s becoming a really popular game, and I predict that it will be added and instated as a permanent game on PokerStars in a few weeks, or even less, and the traffic will be huge. Let's get into it and learn the Six Plus Hold'em rules!
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The Rules of Six Plus Hold'em

So, what are the rules to this weird sounding variation of the Hold’em game? It’s still Hold’em, right? RIGHT. The only difference between 6 Plus and classic is that all the cards from deuce to five are taken out from the deck, leaving 36 cards instead of 52.
The Ace is still low, A6789 making the lowest straight or the wheel as you may know it, and it’s still high making TJQKA.
FlushThere are also some differences in hand strength, like 3-of-a-kind now beats a straight and a flush beats a full house (since it’s harder to make one because you only have 9 suited cards out of 36 with which you can make a 5-card flush from).
Although Six Plus Hold'em is for the most part played as the traditional Hold'em in terms of streets, the main difference comes on the river, at least in some variations of the game, when, instead of dealing a community card, every player is dealt one extra card. In the final round of betting, every player still in will have three hole cards and will need to combine two and two only of those with the four community cards to create the best possible five card hand. In other variations, it is played with a traditional river.

Hand Rankings
  • Royal (straight) flush
  • Four of a kind (quads)
  • Flush
  • Full House
  • Three of a kind
  • Straight
  • Two pair
  • A pair
  • High card

Why is it good?

It’s good because having less cards in the deck makes it so that you get better hands more often, and for a recreational player that’s awesome because he’ll be getting a lot more action this way, and even though A6 represents the absolute minimum Ax type of hand, it can still be kind of hard to find a fold for a beginner.
It’s also simpler to play than Omaha, so that’s another reason why it could turn out to be very attractive for recreational players.
For us regs out there, it’s also a very good thing, because it’s more fun and more action-packed than Classic Hold’em; it’s like a breath of fresh air that you take from playing the classic format. Also, playing multiple formats of poker has been proven to yield high skill increases in all your other poker games, so learning how to play Six Plus Hold’em will most definitely make you a better player overall.
It’s also important to play it as much as you can at the onset. I remember playing Razz online and people would HU SnG me for 10$ and after a few hands they’d rage in chat saying something like “Why did I lose, I had 3 kings?”.
At the beginning, a lot of players will be attracted to the novelty factor, and some of them will even play not knowing the full set of poker rules, so that’s where you make the biggest profit. Like Hold’em was so loose in its online beginnings, where people would stack off with top pair no kicker on any flop back in '03, and people who were decent by that time’s standards made thousands, if not millions of dollars. It was the same with Omaha when people first started playing it, so the time to act is right now as you don't want to lose this opportunity.
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Adjustments and Six Plus Hold'em Strategy

The first thing that you have to understand is that there are 36 cards instead of 52, so the chance that you'll make better hands on average is higher. This means that you’ll value TPGK less, but some other players might overvalue them and call you down even though it’s much easier in this game to make two pair+. I remember playing 5-card draw 9-plus when I was a kid and a straight or a full house were very frequent.
Also, there’s a bigger difference between the odds of hitting. Now, one out becomes one card out of 31 which is roughly 3% chance to hit it. So to hit a flush draw on the turn or on the river you have 5 cards (2 in your hand and 2 down, 5 left out of 9), so 5x3x2=30% chance to hit a flush. But remember that this beats a full house, so it’s the virtual nuts.
The good thing is, although the percentage of hitting a flush is a bit smaller than in regular Hold’em, you’re almost never beat when you do make your hand, because you’re not afraid of sets or paired boards anymore.
Probability of flopping a set is increased to about 18%, which makes calling 3bet with pocket pairs a much more profitable proposition
Next up we have the straight draw, and this is going to be interesting. To hit an open-ender by the river you have 8(outs)x3(percent)x2(turn and river)= 48% which is insane. Basically, if you know that your opponent doesn’t have trips or better, you can just keep on raising, because if you have any kind of fold equity, you’re going to profit in the long run; and when you do get called, it’s as close to a flip as it will ever be, provided you’re not drawing dead.
The modification in draw hitting percentage and flush strength make the game more action-packed and people will get it in a lot more often on flops, making it a very exciting variation to play.
Two pair is also easier to hit because we have 5 outs from 31 cards so it’s going to be 5x2x3%=30% to hit two pair until the river, which renders overpairs a bit less powerful.

Another thing that we need to talk about and everyone absolutely loves is the probability of flopping a set. Here, it’s about 2x3x3%=18% so calling 3bets with pocket pairs becomes more profitable proposition.
AT and AJ lose a lot of their power, but AK becomes much stronger. I’d never 3bet AQ though, because we’re never, ever getting called by a worse ace if we are up against a decent player.

More strategy and math considerations

Now that we know the basic rules of Six Plus Hold’em and that money will fly around way more often, I expect that all poker sites will integrate it pretty fast after it appears on the main one, and that it will be fairly easy to exploit opponents, especially at the beginning, if you integrate the knowledge from this article into your game.

Let’s start off by talking about all of the aspects of pre-flop game.
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Stacking off

Obviously, stacking off now becomes a little bit tighter because we have less cards in the deck, ergo we will get AA or KK a lot more often.
If the chance to get AA pre-flop in regular Hold'em is 0.45 percent, let’s try to calculate that in Six Plus Hold’em:
  • The chance to get dealt one ace in one card is: 4 / 36 = 1 / 9 (one out of nine possible cards).
  • Now, the chance to get dealt the second ace is: 3 / 35 = 8.5%
  • To get the probability of catching aces, you have to multiply the two probabilities and get the percentage, so the probability that we get Aces is: (1/9)*(3/35)=3/9*35=3/315=1/105
Once every 105 hands you’ll get AA in Six Plus Hold’em, which is 0.95%, which, to tell you the truth, is insane! It’s more than the double of regular Hold’em, and that goes for KK QQ JJ TT and any pair!

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Also, let’s see what the probability of getting AK is now:
  • Probability to hit an Ace: 4/36
  • Probability to hit a King after you’ve hit the Ace: 4/35
  • If we multiply these probabilities we will get the odds to get AK pre-flop, so the result is:
  • 4/36 * 4/35 * 2(because the order doesn’t matter) = 4*4/35*36 = 16/1260 *2 = 2.53%
So this means that the range of QQ+/AK now is 0.95+0.95+0.95+2.53= 5.38%. In Hold’em it’s 2.6%. This is going to invite more action into the game and make it a lot more 3bet oriented, because in Six Plus, 2.6% is very close to AA/KK/AKs.
  • 2/36*1/35=0.158%
To verify our calculations, we re-calculate pair and AK probabilities like this:
  • AK – 16 combos – 0.158%*16 = 2.53%
  • AA – 6 combos – 0.158%*6 = 0.95%
  • AKs - 4 combos – 0.158%*4 = 0.63%
So we now have the solution to the combinations problem.

3-betting and stack-off ranges

The pressing matter here is that now, QQ+/AK is 5.38%, which is a huge 3-bet value range and is advisable in 6-max but in FR it’s a lot looser than it may seem. Also, a lot of players in the beginning will still stack off QQ/AK from virtually any position in 6-max games, so you’ll benefit from that by playing QQ a lot more like JJ/TT/99 and only 3bet AA/KK/AK.
Why do we still 3-bet AK? Isn’t this a good hand to flat now ? Yes and no.
  • Let’s say you have AK
  • This means that from all of his combos of AA, 3 are taken out of the 6 because you hold the Ac.
  • Also, from his combinations of KK, 3 are taken out of the 6 because you hold the Kd.
  • Also, from his 16 combinations of AK, he is left with 9 out of 16 because you hold Ac and Kd.
  • This means that he’s 50% less likely to have AA, 50% less likely to have KK, and 43% less likely to be holding AK, so he’ll fold a lot more often pre-flop
Fold Equity
  • Let’s say the UTG opens for 3x and you 3-bet from the button 9x.
  • If UTG opens 10% of his range and continues only with KK+/AK, even if you fold every time to a 4-bet, you’re making a profit in the long run.
  • How? Well, 4.5% of that opening range is AA/KK/AK, but you’re holding blockers so it’s reduced to about 2.5%. That means 3 out of 4 times you win 4.5 blinds(bb/sb/open) and 1 time you lose 9 blinds. That’s good profit in the long run and cannot be overlooked.
  • If his opening range is bigger than 10%, you’re winning a lot more in the long run.
  • Keeping his weaker hands in.
If your opponent opens UTG and you only flat AK, he will not have the option of folding AQ, possibly AJ/KQ to a 3-bet and you can get value from him post-flop, when an ace or a king hits.
  • The element of surprise
Most players will discount AK out of your range when you’re not 3-betting it, and thus make mistakes post-flop. A lot of them might bet AQ for two streets on an ace-high board and check/call the river, and the same goes for KQ on a king-high board. That’s when you get 3 streets of value with your AK against hands that would have folded pre-flop to a 3-bet.
  • Not having a standard play, varying your game
Sometimes if you combine 3-betting AK for 50% and flatting it 50% you become much harder to read, thus your opponent will never know this frequency and it will be hard for him to adapt to your play style.
Most players will discount AK out of your range when you’re not 3-betting it, and thus make mistakes post-flop.
I’d actually be more inclined to 3-bet AKo and flat AKs (leaving my AK flatting range 25%), just because AKs has better playability post-flop from flopping a flush draw. The equity of getting it in pre-flop with AKs is not much higher than that of AKo so I consider flatting a lot more often with this type of hand.
Also, when using your HUD, watch out for the people who have a 2% 3-bet range, because they’re only 3-betting AA/KK, so it becomes super-profitable to call for set-mining purposes (because now you flop a set 18% of the time), and stacking off with only AA versus these players becomes the ultimate exploitive strategy. I’m even folding AK pre-flop because if we call the 3-bet and we hit a king, he’s most likely holding aces, and if we hit an ace, he’s most likely not paying us off with KK.

Conclusion

All in all this will be a very interesting, action-filled game and I can’t wait for it to become an official format adopted by the major sites, because I really believe this is the new Hold’em and it will be a worthy breath of fresh air for all of us that have been playing the same game for years and years. I hope you found these Six Plus Hold'em rules easy to follow and useful as an introduction to the game.
To wrap it up, I leave you with the words of wisdom from a great man:
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. Walt Disney
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Before we jump into covering some great tips on how to win at this game, let’s just run over the basics for anyone that isn’t too familiar with this fairly new game type in the Poker world…

  • 6 Plus or Short Deck gets it’s name because there are fewer cards in the deck it is played with, all the 2’s, 3’s, 4’s and 5’s are removed. So instead of a 52 card deck, we are left with just 36 cards.
  • Hold’em games are usually formed of a small blind and big blind with or without antes, the blinds work a little differently in a 6 Plus game.
  • There is a small ante posted by everyone at the table and then the big ante is posted by the Button position only. So when the blinds are $2/$4, for example, $2 is posted by every player for each hand they are dealt as an ante, this is dead money that remains in the pot, the player can then choose to fold or to play they can limp in for the additional cost of $2 more or raise.
  • The action starts on the left of the Button(normally the small blind position) and the Button can check to see the Flop is there is no raise Pre-Flop.
  • The biggest difference in Short Deck gameplay is the value of a flush beats the value of a full house, this is because there is less of each suit in this game they are actually harder to make.
  • Most games you will play that a straight beats three of a kind, however, be careful to know the rules of the game before playing, because this is different in some games and online in some poker rooms too with some game providers ruling that three of a kind beats a straight.

Limp with a Wide Range of Hands

On a 6 Handed table, which is the typical format for this game we will be getting 7:1 on a call, therefore we are only going to want to be folding a tiny portion of our least playable hands pre-flop.

Now once we limp and face a large raise, we can fold certain hands, but we should be limping with almost 100% of hands if there hasn’t been a raise in front of us, just because we are getting such a good price.

Use Large Bet Sizings

When we have a strong hand in short deck we are going to want to pile in the money, there are literally no safe cards that can come off in this game, every card will complete a draw or improve tonnes of other hands, so our objective is to use huge bet sizings and overbet a lot with our good draws and strong hands, this way we will force out hands with good equity against us.

Straight Draws Have Tonnes of Equity

We will want to press the action with our good straight draws because even when we are up against the top of our opponents’ range will have loads of equity in the hand. The reason for this is because there are fewer cards in this deck there are more straight cards that will complete our hand.

Let’s look at this example:
So on this board even though our opponent has a huge hand with top two pair here we still have 42% equity with our open-ended straight draw on this board.

What this will usually mean is that stacking off and putting all our money in on this board will be a winning play in the long run for a few reasons.

  • There will be dead money in the pot which will often make up our slight lack in equity and make it a winning play to gamble here.
  • Sometimes our opponent won’t have a good hand like this and just fold to our action and we win the pot uncontested.
  • For the times our opponent will gamble with a hand that we have in bad shape with a hand like a flush draw or worse straight draw.
  • If you are playing on a site that let’s you cash out your equity, it can be a good idea to just always push with all these strong draws and then just cash out your equity for the times you are called.

Look to Spring the Trap

You will notice on many tables of this Short Deck game that players will make huge pre-flop raises, one of the best things we can do to get massive value from these plays is to limp with our entire range including our monster hands like KK and AA.

This will allow us to make easy folds pre-flop alot of the time and then sometimes we have the monster hand and we can re-raise all in and win a huge pot either pre-flop or when we get action we will be a huge favourite to win a monster pot.

The added benefit of making this move is that once our opponents have seen that we sometimes limp with huge holdings they are going to be less likely to raise us again without a big hand, so we will get to see more value from our mediocre hands that we would sometimes get raised off of.

Don’t Overvalue hands like Jacks and Queens

Remember this is short deck, so the chances of someone having KK, AA or even AK is way more likely, so we are going to want to play even strong hands like QQ and JJ as more of a set mine type hand because these holdings will not play well in a big pre-flop hand and they aren’t going to flop too well all that often either.

This makes them a good candidate for playing pretty slowly and taking flops, we can win huge pots with people that will over-play weaker holdings when we flop sets with these types of hands and most players will never consider someone limping with hands as strong as this, so we will have huge deception.

This is probably one of the biggest leaks I have seen from beginner players, stacking off with pretty much any pocket pair they can find as their whole cards and then just playing JJ and QQ like they are the nuts, but you will always run into better hands when you play like this.

Sum Up

Limp a Wide Range of Hands, we get great initial odds due to the game format, so look to at least limp nearly your entire range.
Use Large Bet Sizings including over-bets with good equity holdings
Push the action and either look for folds or get gambling with open-enders
Look to Spring the Trap with hands like AA and KK with a limp pre-flop
Don’t Overvalue hands like Jacks and Queens, they play much more poorly in this game.

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