A Mexican buddy of mine organized a tequilla and taco night at a local restaurant.  It's a pretty authentic place - they make their own corn tortillas and the first taco listed on the menu was tripe (beef intestine), so this wasn't your local Taco Bell.  When I got home, I was in no condition to play yesterday.

But, I made 3K in 2K hands earlier in the day, so it was still a productive work day.  One of the problems I'm having with playing full ring and 6max at the same time is that I'm having trouble switching between the nittiness of full ring and the aggression in 6max.  I'm pretty sure I spewed off a few buy-ins in full ring because I had a 6max mindet to the game.  So to help those who may be starting to play both games, I have decided to write a guideline as to how to differentiate between the two games.  Part I below is a summary of what various preflop calls mean.

POKER

Since many of you guys either play full ring OR 6max but not both, I thought I would share with you my simplified observations of what it means when people call bets in FR vs 6max:

In Full Ring:
* villain calls flop bet = top pair +
* villain calls flop & turn bet = any 2 pair +
* villain calls flop, turn & river bets = set +
* villain calls flop & turn bets & raises river bet = nuts and on occasion only the second nuts.  Ironically, the better the odds you get, the MORE likely you should be to fold the second nuts.  If you get better than 2 to 1 odds on a call, this is never anything but the stone cold nuts.  Third nuts is always a turbo fold.

In 6max:
* villain calls flop bet = almost entire range
* villain calls flop & turn bet = any pair or hand that has 4 or more outs to beat top pair
* villain calls flop, turn & river bet = third pair +
* villain calls flop & turn bets & raises river bet = missed draw or third pair from above turned into a bluff.  Ironically, the better the player, the worse their range of holdings for this play.  A recent hand between two of the better high stakes players posted in the forums.  The shove occurred on the turn but the concepts are the same.

Hopefully this will increase your win rate by at least 0.5ptbb.

BTW, for the poker noobs out there, this is a level post.  Sort of.