Six Plus Poker
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Having already dealt with hand rankings and the starting hands in parts 1 and 2, it’s time to turn to the mathematical side of the game and see just how much difference the 36-card deck makes to pot odds.
Six Plus Hold’em is a community poker card game founded from Texas hold’em, also known as Short Deck Poker. Although most of the rules are similar, there are three key variations. In 6 + Hold’em, cards are omitted from deuces through fives to bringing the complete deck to just 36 cards, rather than the normal 52 cards. Six-plus hold ’em (also known as short-deck hold ’em) is a community card poker game variant of Texas hold ’em, where the 2 through 5 cards are removed from the deck.Each player is dealt two cards face down and seeks to make the best five card poker hand from any combination of the seven cards (five community cards and their own two hole cards).This will obviously involve looking at whether you’re likely to be ahead or not at any given point, and also calculating the percentages of outs available for you or your opponent.
Let’s start with an open example:Example 1
Six plus Hold’em ($10/20, 6-handed)
Hero:910
Villain:QQ
Villain opens in seat 1 for $50, everyone else folds and you call in the BB. Pot = $110
Flop:7KA
Hero checks and Villain continuation bets$55, half the pot, making the pot$165 (let’s not discuss whether it’s a good play or not - I’m trying to make the maths simple for us all!)
We don’t know what the villain has, but we’re pretty sure we are only drawing to the flush here, so it comes down to pot odds whether we call or not (let’s ignore a speculative re-raise in this scenario!)
There are only nine spades in the deck in total (remember that the 2,3,4 and 5 are all out of play) and five of them are split between the board, our hand and our opponent’s hand. We don’t know that he has the Qs, so that’s only four in play for our purposes – so five cards left to draw to.
So, 5 of the 31 cards unknown to us will likely win, which is about a 17% chance of hitting, and we have two attempts at hitting it, so roughly 34%.
The other way of calculating this is to count one out, which is one in 31 = 3.2%, so…5 cards x 3.2% x 2 attempts = 32%, which is close enough for practical purposes.
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In this instance, we are being offered 3-1 on the pot, and we are 2-1 to win, so it’s an easy call. Our flush draw will come in more often than not.
So, just as we saw in Part 2 that we are twice as likely to receive any particular starting hand, so the unofficial ‘Rule of 4 & 2’ changes and becomes….the ‘Rule of 2&1’. Our %’s are easy to calculate quickly, if not 100% accurately.
With two cards to come in Texas Hold’em, we multiply our outs by four, if only the river is left then times by two. In Six Plus 2x and 1x is the easy way.
Also useful to note is if we had reason to believe our opponent was on trips, then his quite realistic chances of hitting a full house would have to be factored in were we playing Texas Hold’em – but in Six Plus a Flush beats a Full House anyway, so it wouldn’t be an issue. A difference, and a crucial one.
Let’s try another example, and see how straights play with pot odds and outs.
Example 2
Six plus Hold’em ($10/20, 6-handed)
Hero:910
Villain:QQ
Villain opens in seat 1 for $50, everyone else folds and you call in the BB. Pot = $110
Flop:78K
Hero checks and Villain c-bets $55, half the pot, making the pot $165 (again, keeping the maths simple)
So, first of all we have ‘nothing’ except an open-ended straight draw, and we can consider our opponent to have something better than this, so again we are drawing to win.
We have eight outs (the four 6’s and the 4 Jacks) and there are again 31 unknown cards, so roughly 26%. And we have the turn and river to hit them. So, using the ‘guesstimator’ rule of ‘2 & 1’ for practical play, we can say 2 x 26%=52% chance of hitting.
Just to check this….
8 cards x 3.2% x 2 attempts = 51%, again close enough to know we’ve done it right.
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This is even clearer than example one when it comes to pot odds: 3-1 pot odds and even money on a win with your straight.
However, if you factor in that your opponent might have trips – which now beats a straight in Six Plus Holdem, it brings the odds down a bit - though you’d have to actually ‘know’ he was on trips to let it affect your play here.
The even more interesting aspect which this brings up, as pointed out on PokerVIP, is that: 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.”Let’s draw up a table which shows the Texas Hold’em %’s versus the new Six Plus Hold’em %’s. These are the numbers you should learn by heart!
Odds and Probabilities from the flop to the river
Texas
Six Plus
Making a flush from a 4-flush
34.5%
33%
Making a full house or better from a set
33.3%
54%
Making a full house from 2 pair
16.4%
26%
Filling an open-ended straight draw
31.3%
51%
Filling a gutshot straight by the river
16.4%
26%
Odds and Probabilities at the turn
Texas
Six Plus
Making a flush from a 4-flush
19.6%
16.5%
Making a full house or better from a set
21.7%
32.2%
Making a full house from 2 pair
8.33%
12.8%
Filling an open-ended straight draw
17.2%
25.6%
Filling a gutshot straight draw
8.33%
12.8%
OK, so these are the basics regarding pot odds and outs –for deeper strategy I refer you back to our earlier link where you can find all sorts of goodies which explain the differences in more details: stacking off, 3-betting ranges and much more.
For the time being, this 3–parter has hopefully set you up to at least play Six Plus Hold’em without the feeling that you know nothing about this action-packed version of poker!
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16:43
14 Mar
Remember the uncommon poker games article published on PokerTube a couple of months ago? Remember the last game we talked about briefly? That’s right, Six Plus Holdem, a very interesting format introduced by the usual suspects in Macau, Tom Dwan and Phil Ivey. Well, we believe you’ll be very happy to know that the future is now.
The new format is finally available online, on the iPoker Network - although still in test mode - and everyone bored with the old Cadillac of Poker can now try Six Plus Holdem with as little as a few bucks. So far, the available stakes are 4NL and 20NL. Since March is full of promotions targeting the new game, the tables and the stakes will probably continue to pile up in order to compete with the Pot Limit Omaha iPoker traffic.
Before hitting the SPH tables though, you need to know some basic things about this format. Yes, it’s a lot like No Limit Texas Holdem, but at the same time, different in many ways. And to prove it, let’s start things off with the rule changes. Stripped Deck Of Cards, Different Hand Rankings
The most important difference between the regular Holdem and SPH concerns the deck of cards. In SPH you play only with 36 cards, stripping away the 2s, 3s, 4s and 5s. That’s why it’s called Six Plus, because the deck has cards ranked six and above. As in regular Holdem, the Ace can also have a low value thus make a low straight like the classic wheel - A2345. In SPH, the wheel is actually A6789.
Since there are fewer cards in deck and only nine of the same suit, the hand ranking is slightly different as the strength of certain poker hands changes. Therefore, the flush has a much higher value and actually beats the boat. The straight on the other hand has a lower value than in NLHE and is beaten down by the set but still beats the lone pair and two pairs. Below, you can read the entire Six Plus Holdem Hand Rankings from the weakest to the strongest hand:
* High Card
* One Pair
* Two Pairs
* Straight
* Three of a Kind
* Full House
* Flush
* Four of a Kind
* Straight Flush
* Royal Flush Strategy: Smaller Edges, Different Perspective
Now what about the basic strategy? The good news is that the Six Plus Holdem winning strategy is a work in progress, so that means everyone is likely to make big mistakes at one point or another. The preflop edges are definitely much smaller, more like in Omaha, that’s why the weaker player won’t make that much of a mistake if they call preflop with a weak holding. Like in Omaha, the hands will run bigger as compared to NLHE Red screen slots 2020. so anyone who starts playing SPH must be very careful in determining the relative strength of their poker hand.
Basically, this is a brand new version of Omaha but much less complex. And since we’re comparing the new game with Omaha, we also have to mention the swings and high variance SPH could bring in your online cashier. Don’t believe us? Well, let’s hear Ivey and Dwan talk about the new format (notice the smirk on Ivey’s face when he’s talking about bankroll management and Dwan’s reaction):Six Plus Poker App
As expected, they aren’t prepared to share their insight about the game just yet, but we can provide you with some basics hints at least. You definitely need to change your perspective when playing SPH, even re-think your betting sizes preflop and know that position is even more important than in NLHE. And remember..Omaha: big cards, huge value, high suited cards are even more important - connected cards, not that much anyone - and yes, reverse implied odds. Those odds can be a game changer as the user ExciteD pointed out on 2+2 forums:As somebody who has studied the game due to challenge/chance of expansion, I can tell you, should GREATLY change your NLH game when playing 6+ holdem. Start thinking about reverse implied odds and how you can put people in spots where reverse implied odds are hugely in your profit (situations like that occur very often, cause hands improve a huge percentage of the time).’
For more tips regarding how to approach the new game, you can also take a look on our sister site PokerVIP and read the Six Plus Hold’em Rules & Strategy. Editor’s Take: New Games, New Opportunities
Ok, more gambling, smaller edges but is it worth it? Can SPH become the next big thing in the poker industry? It definitely can!
Many poker players are of the opinion that the revitalization of the poker ecology cannot be done by simply wiping out old, inefficient formats and games. It can only be done by adding and developing new, interesting, and different game options. I share their opinion and I believe a new derivation like Six Plus Holdem will bring a lot of positives to the depleted online environment in the long run.Six Plus Poker Rules
Everybody knows why Omaha didn’t catch up with the mainstream as much as Texas Holdem, too many complained about the complexity of the game. Not to mention paying attention to all those ever-present draws and making a poker hand from exactly three community cards and two hole cards. SPH gets rid of all those complaints. It’s simple like regular Holdem and the gambling factor is much more present. If we also add the lack of strategic information about the game, we can assume every single one of us could be a winner (the reverse is also possible if we aren’t prepared to put in the work, every one of us can be a fish).
So really, what’s not to like? Can SPH become an even more popular game than the regular NLHE? Maybe in the long run, but for now it definitely has the potential to compete with other poker variants like Stud, 2-7 Triple Draw and yes, even Pot Limit Omaha.
What do you think? Is Six Plus Holdem a Game Changer? Can it top the popularity of PLO and NLHE? Share your thoughts with the rest of us in the comment section below.
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Having already dealt with hand rankings and the starting hands in parts 1 and 2, it’s time to turn to the mathematical side of the game and see just how much difference the 36-card deck makes to pot odds.
Six Plus Hold’em is a community poker card game founded from Texas hold’em, also known as Short Deck Poker. Although most of the rules are similar, there are three key variations. In 6 + Hold’em, cards are omitted from deuces through fives to bringing the complete deck to just 36 cards, rather than the normal 52 cards. Six-plus hold ’em (also known as short-deck hold ’em) is a community card poker game variant of Texas hold ’em, where the 2 through 5 cards are removed from the deck.Each player is dealt two cards face down and seeks to make the best five card poker hand from any combination of the seven cards (five community cards and their own two hole cards).This will obviously involve looking at whether you’re likely to be ahead or not at any given point, and also calculating the percentages of outs available for you or your opponent.
Let’s start with an open example:Example 1
Six plus Hold’em ($10/20, 6-handed)
Hero:910
Villain:QQ
Villain opens in seat 1 for $50, everyone else folds and you call in the BB. Pot = $110
Flop:7KA
Hero checks and Villain continuation bets$55, half the pot, making the pot$165 (let’s not discuss whether it’s a good play or not - I’m trying to make the maths simple for us all!)
We don’t know what the villain has, but we’re pretty sure we are only drawing to the flush here, so it comes down to pot odds whether we call or not (let’s ignore a speculative re-raise in this scenario!)
There are only nine spades in the deck in total (remember that the 2,3,4 and 5 are all out of play) and five of them are split between the board, our hand and our opponent’s hand. We don’t know that he has the Qs, so that’s only four in play for our purposes – so five cards left to draw to.
So, 5 of the 31 cards unknown to us will likely win, which is about a 17% chance of hitting, and we have two attempts at hitting it, so roughly 34%.
The other way of calculating this is to count one out, which is one in 31 = 3.2%, so…5 cards x 3.2% x 2 attempts = 32%, which is close enough for practical purposes.
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In this instance, we are being offered 3-1 on the pot, and we are 2-1 to win, so it’s an easy call. Our flush draw will come in more often than not.
So, just as we saw in Part 2 that we are twice as likely to receive any particular starting hand, so the unofficial ‘Rule of 4 & 2’ changes and becomes….the ‘Rule of 2&1’. Our %’s are easy to calculate quickly, if not 100% accurately.
With two cards to come in Texas Hold’em, we multiply our outs by four, if only the river is left then times by two. In Six Plus 2x and 1x is the easy way.
Also useful to note is if we had reason to believe our opponent was on trips, then his quite realistic chances of hitting a full house would have to be factored in were we playing Texas Hold’em – but in Six Plus a Flush beats a Full House anyway, so it wouldn’t be an issue. A difference, and a crucial one.
Let’s try another example, and see how straights play with pot odds and outs.
Example 2
Six plus Hold’em ($10/20, 6-handed)
Hero:910
Villain:QQ
Villain opens in seat 1 for $50, everyone else folds and you call in the BB. Pot = $110
Flop:78K
Hero checks and Villain c-bets $55, half the pot, making the pot $165 (again, keeping the maths simple)
So, first of all we have ‘nothing’ except an open-ended straight draw, and we can consider our opponent to have something better than this, so again we are drawing to win.
We have eight outs (the four 6’s and the 4 Jacks) and there are again 31 unknown cards, so roughly 26%. And we have the turn and river to hit them. So, using the ‘guesstimator’ rule of ‘2 & 1’ for practical play, we can say 2 x 26%=52% chance of hitting.
Just to check this….
8 cards x 3.2% x 2 attempts = 51%, again close enough to know we’ve done it right.
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This is even clearer than example one when it comes to pot odds: 3-1 pot odds and even money on a win with your straight.
However, if you factor in that your opponent might have trips – which now beats a straight in Six Plus Holdem, it brings the odds down a bit - though you’d have to actually ‘know’ he was on trips to let it affect your play here.
The even more interesting aspect which this brings up, as pointed out on PokerVIP, is that: 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.”Let’s draw up a table which shows the Texas Hold’em %’s versus the new Six Plus Hold’em %’s. These are the numbers you should learn by heart!
Odds and Probabilities from the flop to the river
Texas
Six Plus
Making a flush from a 4-flush
34.5%
33%
Making a full house or better from a set
33.3%
54%
Making a full house from 2 pair
16.4%
26%
Filling an open-ended straight draw
31.3%
51%
Filling a gutshot straight by the river
16.4%
26%
Odds and Probabilities at the turn
Texas
Six Plus
Making a flush from a 4-flush
19.6%
16.5%
Making a full house or better from a set
21.7%
32.2%
Making a full house from 2 pair
8.33%
12.8%
Filling an open-ended straight draw
17.2%
25.6%
Filling a gutshot straight draw
8.33%
12.8%
OK, so these are the basics regarding pot odds and outs –for deeper strategy I refer you back to our earlier link where you can find all sorts of goodies which explain the differences in more details: stacking off, 3-betting ranges and much more.
For the time being, this 3–parter has hopefully set you up to at least play Six Plus Hold’em without the feeling that you know nothing about this action-packed version of poker!
*Lowest Rake 6+ Games Online
*Mobile & Desktop Six Plus Action
*PLO & NLHE VariantsSponsored Content
More Top Rated Content
Articles
*Six Plus Hold’em Hand Rankings
*Six Plus Hold’em Rules & Strategy
*Six Plus Hold’em Starting Hands
Coaching Videos
*Optimizing Sleep for Poker Success
*Hypnotherapy in Poker
16:43
14 Mar
Remember the uncommon poker games article published on PokerTube a couple of months ago? Remember the last game we talked about briefly? That’s right, Six Plus Holdem, a very interesting format introduced by the usual suspects in Macau, Tom Dwan and Phil Ivey. Well, we believe you’ll be very happy to know that the future is now.
The new format is finally available online, on the iPoker Network - although still in test mode - and everyone bored with the old Cadillac of Poker can now try Six Plus Holdem with as little as a few bucks. So far, the available stakes are 4NL and 20NL. Since March is full of promotions targeting the new game, the tables and the stakes will probably continue to pile up in order to compete with the Pot Limit Omaha iPoker traffic.
Before hitting the SPH tables though, you need to know some basic things about this format. Yes, it’s a lot like No Limit Texas Holdem, but at the same time, different in many ways. And to prove it, let’s start things off with the rule changes. Stripped Deck Of Cards, Different Hand Rankings
The most important difference between the regular Holdem and SPH concerns the deck of cards. In SPH you play only with 36 cards, stripping away the 2s, 3s, 4s and 5s. That’s why it’s called Six Plus, because the deck has cards ranked six and above. As in regular Holdem, the Ace can also have a low value thus make a low straight like the classic wheel - A2345. In SPH, the wheel is actually A6789.
Since there are fewer cards in deck and only nine of the same suit, the hand ranking is slightly different as the strength of certain poker hands changes. Therefore, the flush has a much higher value and actually beats the boat. The straight on the other hand has a lower value than in NLHE and is beaten down by the set but still beats the lone pair and two pairs. Below, you can read the entire Six Plus Holdem Hand Rankings from the weakest to the strongest hand:
* High Card
* One Pair
* Two Pairs
* Straight
* Three of a Kind
* Full House
* Flush
* Four of a Kind
* Straight Flush
* Royal Flush Strategy: Smaller Edges, Different Perspective
Now what about the basic strategy? The good news is that the Six Plus Holdem winning strategy is a work in progress, so that means everyone is likely to make big mistakes at one point or another. The preflop edges are definitely much smaller, more like in Omaha, that’s why the weaker player won’t make that much of a mistake if they call preflop with a weak holding. Like in Omaha, the hands will run bigger as compared to NLHE Red screen slots 2020. so anyone who starts playing SPH must be very careful in determining the relative strength of their poker hand.
Basically, this is a brand new version of Omaha but much less complex. And since we’re comparing the new game with Omaha, we also have to mention the swings and high variance SPH could bring in your online cashier. Don’t believe us? Well, let’s hear Ivey and Dwan talk about the new format (notice the smirk on Ivey’s face when he’s talking about bankroll management and Dwan’s reaction):Six Plus Poker App
As expected, they aren’t prepared to share their insight about the game just yet, but we can provide you with some basics hints at least. You definitely need to change your perspective when playing SPH, even re-think your betting sizes preflop and know that position is even more important than in NLHE. And remember..Omaha: big cards, huge value, high suited cards are even more important - connected cards, not that much anyone - and yes, reverse implied odds. Those odds can be a game changer as the user ExciteD pointed out on 2+2 forums:As somebody who has studied the game due to challenge/chance of expansion, I can tell you, should GREATLY change your NLH game when playing 6+ holdem. Start thinking about reverse implied odds and how you can put people in spots where reverse implied odds are hugely in your profit (situations like that occur very often, cause hands improve a huge percentage of the time).’
For more tips regarding how to approach the new game, you can also take a look on our sister site PokerVIP and read the Six Plus Hold’em Rules & Strategy. Editor’s Take: New Games, New Opportunities
Ok, more gambling, smaller edges but is it worth it? Can SPH become the next big thing in the poker industry? It definitely can!
Many poker players are of the opinion that the revitalization of the poker ecology cannot be done by simply wiping out old, inefficient formats and games. It can only be done by adding and developing new, interesting, and different game options. I share their opinion and I believe a new derivation like Six Plus Holdem will bring a lot of positives to the depleted online environment in the long run.Six Plus Poker Rules
Everybody knows why Omaha didn’t catch up with the mainstream as much as Texas Holdem, too many complained about the complexity of the game. Not to mention paying attention to all those ever-present draws and making a poker hand from exactly three community cards and two hole cards. SPH gets rid of all those complaints. It’s simple like regular Holdem and the gambling factor is much more present. If we also add the lack of strategic information about the game, we can assume every single one of us could be a winner (the reverse is also possible if we aren’t prepared to put in the work, every one of us can be a fish).
So really, what’s not to like? Can SPH become an even more popular game than the regular NLHE? Maybe in the long run, but for now it definitely has the potential to compete with other poker variants like Stud, 2-7 Triple Draw and yes, even Pot Limit Omaha.
What do you think? Is Six Plus Holdem a Game Changer? Can it top the popularity of PLO and NLHE? Share your thoughts with the rest of us in the comment section below.
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