I have always thought that many players who play six max no-limit hold’em are still trying to play post flop poker too much. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with this but you really want to be playing post flop poker with either the initiative or strong implied odds and so calling raises is not really going to be profitable. This is especially the case at the middle limits where more and more players fire double barrels and triple barrels where they stack off.
Sure their ranges may be polarised but it is still tough to call players with jack and queen high. I love players who have PokerTracker statistics in six handed NLHE of around 24/10. They get good VPIP but achieve it in totally the wrong way and call raises too much and limp in too much trying to take small ball too far. Irrespective what anyone else tells you, when you play no-limit then your PFR should not be too far behind your VPIP figure.
There will be times when you limp from the small blind in a family pot or lip behind with pocket pairs for implied odds but your PFR percentage needs to be very close to your VPIP figure in six max. This means 25/22 and not 25/10 or 25/12. Are you one of the players who calls raises with speculative hands and then releases? If players limp or call raises then they are conceding the initiative. This is even more so if they are chronic floaters as well. This means that when they call your flop bet then you can simply fire another barrel on the turn.
Or you can mess with them if you hit the turn by checking. This to them looks like a successful float and when they step in and bet the turn then you have extracted another street of value than if you had bet. You can carry much of the advice from six handed play and apply it to full ring because after all, when four players have folded in full ring then you are essentially playing six max anyway.
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