[rabman50]

I’m not very experienced with short deck, but I have played some and read up on the strategies. The hand equities run much closer in short deck than in standard NLHE, therefore you can employ a limping strategy from the early positions. This is because there are many fewer premium pre-flop holdings specifically AA, KK, and AKs. You will have a very tough time balancing your premium vs non-premium holdings if you employ a RFI strategy from every position. As such it is more common to start pre-flop raising from the CO when the players in front of you fold. The normal raise size would be 6 – 10 antes. There is a good article from mypokercoaching.com that explains this much better than I can. Give it a read.

Short Deck Poker Rules: The Best Six Plus Holdem Strategy Guide (mypokercoaching.com)

[eanderson85]

Like all raises, it depends on pot odds, rake, and exploitation.
You want to give your opponents bad odds to call. That is the very definition of “making a mistake”.

If you are going to play a lot, try to find some math on how often you hit a flop. In full deck you hit a pair or better on the flop 32.4%. If we are targeting pairs, in order to make your opponent make a mistake, you need to open pot size (~3X) plus enough to beat the rake. This gives your opponent 33% pot odds.
Most players now open about 3/4 pot because there is no rake in tournaments, and they believe that they are above average post flop. Just like most people think they are above average drivers.
Okay, let’s be honest. Most players are opening 2.5-2.7 just because they saw someone else do it who knows what they’re doing. 😀 They have absolutely no idea why, and many will deny that math is even a factor.
In order to find the right open size, you need to determine how often you hit the flop, what hands you want to price out, and then offer bad pot odds to your villains. I’m sure it has already been figured out, but it is still making money, so it will be hard to find without hiring a college kid to do the math for you.

Of course, that is theory. Your opponents don’t play perfectly.
If you have opponents who want to see every flop, eliminate your bluffs and 2X pot it every bet. (“It doesn’t matter what I bet, 3 people call!”, then why aren’t you getting max value?)
If you are playing nits who only play ultra-premiums, then open looser for a small size because they will overfold, then give up when they call. Believe them.

Postflop: In full deck, we use the rule of 2 and 4 to calculate our drawing odds, using 2% per card because 1 card is 1/52nd of the deck (1.92%).
In short deck, 2s through 5s are gone, so there are only 36 cards. 1/36 = 2.77%. so now we have the rule of 3 and 6.
That means we (and our opponents) have a 50% better chance of hitting our outs in short deck poker.