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While we’re in this pandemic era, most tables will likely be that 6-max type thing, but I don’t think this will be permanent. In the real world, tables cost money in terms of dealer salary, physical space etc., card rooms and casinos will want to return to 8 or 9 handed as soon as possible.
I’m fairly optimistic that we’ll have some much better treatment and vaccine options in 2021, and I expect the card rooms and casinos to move back to “normal” sometime toward summer of 2021. But what do I know?
But in the near term, for tournaments and cash, it is important for us all to understand the challenges of 5 or 6 handed tables. Our “UTG” range becomes our LJ range, which means we’re opening a lot more, but our opponents need to be defending/three betting us more too from later positions. It just becomes a much more active game. And in cash, as we are forced to be more active, the percentage of the rake we have to pay each orbit goes up. This means we will have to drag a few more pots over a session to stay ahead of it.
