Short cards are also called 6 + poker, because 2-3-4-5 these small cards are drawn, so it is easy for everyone to hit the card, easy to hit the card leads to a wider range of entry, the entry rate and the betting rate are also rising, and the short card play is actually more action required for the player to act more (otherwise it is easy to "sit and eat the mountain"), even if at the beginning your starting hand is not stronger than the opponent, but because the win rate is similar, you will easily overtake the opponent and win the pot, so compared to the traditional Poker, when playing short cards, The pool entry rate must be higher to be reasonable.
In the more common regular table play of short card games, each player needs to pay the front bet (equivalent to 1bb) before turning, and the button bit needs to pay another button blind (=1bb), because everyone needs to invest chips before turning, so the "dead money" at the beginning of the pot will be a lot, the temptation to enter the pool will become larger, plus the overall card strength of the hand becomes higher, the player can often get the cards that can enter the game (such as large pocket pairs or two high cards), so the number of players who slip into the pool will become more, You will find that short cards are easy to appear that kind of 4-5 people's pot, and the probability of the flop directly playing to the full bottom is much higher than the traditional Poker, many new players who play short cards are often emptied because of the super top pair or two pairs or small straights in the case of too late to change their thinking.
The number of starting cards in the traditional Poker is a total of 1326 hands, but the total number of starting cards in the short card has shrunk by more than half, only 630 hands, if not distinguished by suit, there are only 81 types of cards in the short card, while the traditional Poker has 169 kinds.
If you play a 6-player short card, then the odds for the muzzle player (the first place on the left hand of the button bit) are 7:1, not the 3:2 of the traditional Poker, so the action of limp has become a routine operation in the short card, so in order to balance the range of limp, sometimes it is necessary to use some strong cards to make limp-reraise, such as AA, KK or AK.
In the short card game, there are 7 types of cards that have a win rate of more than 60% against any hand, they are TT+, AK, AQs, while in the traditional Poker, there are 31 types of cards with a win rate of more than 60% against any card type, they are 55+, A5s+, A9o+, K9s+, KJo+, QJs+, the former accounting for 7.94%, the latter accounting for 8.45%
The odds of getting an AA or KK are 1.9%, while KK+ has a 72% win rate against JJ, and for many PLO players, they will feel that a 60% win rate is already a strong starting hand.
The table below shows the win rates of each type of pocket pair against 14% of all starting cards:
As can be seen from the table, the small pocket is not a good card in the short card, and some players can't help but use the small pocket to look at the flop, but the situation is usually not too good after entering the game with these cards, even if the dark three are not used. For example, if you sneak into the pot with 66 in the second position on the left hand side of the button position, and several opponents also sneak in, flop 6810, in terms of the inertia of the short card game, this situation will usually have someone playing the flop to the full bottom, and the opponent's full range contains a 97-88-TT-T8-T6-J9 card type, facing these combinations, the win rate of 66 is only 60%, and the chance of the opponent overtaking is as high as 40%.
The 89, T9, JT and QJ cards are the strongest starting cards in the short card, T9 and JT have a 19% chance of listening to both ends in the flop, QJ is 12%, and KQ's middle circumference is only 6%.
In the traditional Poker, when we calculate the win rate of flops and transfers, we use the two-four principle, but this principle becomes the three-six principle in the short card, that is to say, if the flop circle listens to the two ends, the probability of the middle card is 8×6 = 48%, and when the card circle is turned, the probability becomes 8×3 = 24%.
Due to the different structure of the front bet and the similar win rate between the starting hands, the role of position in the short card is more obvious.
BTN's positional advantage has become very large, so the range of defense of BTN bits can be wider, and when encountering weaker opponents, they can raise more at the beginning of the BTN position or isolate these weak players at 3-bet. This is also why most of the hand types in the range should be used to sneak in when the front position is lower than 150ab, and the original limp/3-bet strategy can directly take the full route when encountering the opponent's isolation charge. If it is the first person to raise, usually need to add to the number of [pot + 2 front bet], the previous bet 1 knife 6 people table short card as an example, the dead money in the front pot has reached 7 knives, then a standard front opening turnover is 9 or 10 knives.
After the river card is issued, if there is no male pair on the card face, there will usually be at least 2 or more straights, which means that if your card strength in the river card circle is only one or two pairs, you should play with caution. For example, the card surface A-J-9-K-6, QT and 78 all became straights; The A-T-7-J-8 card face, KQ, Q9 or any 9x also became smooth; The probability of this kind of card face without public pairs appearing in short cards is as high as 33%.
The probability of the straight card in the short card game is very frequent, so when encountering a super pair or a top pair, in most cases, you can use the straight card to play aggressively, if you can force the opponent to fold, then you can immediately take down the pot, if not, it is also a coin toss, in general, there is a profitable. The top pair of this kind of card strength can not be regarded as a strong card, and if you hit the last two streets, the situation of the top pair has become a dilemma, and it is generally impossible to still be the best card in the river card circle, especially in the multi-person pot; Therefore, when you get the top pair, don't play too fiercely, don't invest too much, in most cases you should choose the control pool, after all, this card power is very fragile in the flop circle.
When holding a card such as a gourd or a straight, if there is a possibility of flowers on the card surface, once the river deck is filled, most of the time you should not add it to the whole. The probability of the same-flower card in the starting flop with the nature of the same hand is about 10%, because there are fewer cards to make up, the flush rate becomes lower, so you should not invest too much in the flush card before the flop, because even if you have a flush in the flop, the probability of your success in listening to the flower is only 30%. However, if it is a flush card, rather than a simple flush card, its value is higher, because in addition to listening to the flowers, it also has more potential to chase; Small pure flush cards like J6s, Q7s, and T6s should be discarded directly before they are turned.
Short cards really became popular in 2018, and before that, it was just a niche game that was more exciting and popular with bosses than the traditional Poker, and with the development of these years, the schedule of many large competitions has appeared in the short card event, and some people say that its popularity has surpassed the pot limit Omaha.
If you don't know much about traditional Poker, it's best not to touch short cards, but if you've already played traditional Poker and want to change your taste at the table, the short cards will be a good choice!
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