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It will be interesting to see how players adjust their ranges when they are accustomed to 9-handed and have to play 6 to 4-handed. Some will adjust too much and be overly loose and some will not adjust enough be too tight. I like to think 6-handed play as similar to 9-hands with UTG, UTG+1, and UTG+2 folding. In practice, LJ is the first to act preflop when 6-handed. So if you have a good LJ ranges, then you have a good basis for 6-handed “UTG”.
Even though rake greatly affects win-rate, not all players consider it. The small size of limped pots means that the rake is higher percentage of the pot. This incentivizes us to only enter the pot when our hand is good enough to raise.
Having less players in each hand should reduce the time to complete each hand. This would increase the hands per hour. So there is an argument that the casino should reduce the per hand basis of the rake. But factors like reduced density of tables per area would push it in the other direction. We’ll see just have to see how it all works out.
