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Rational Madman
Legend
Platinum Level
In tournaments, you can argue that you can profit better from smaller tournaments as more fish tend to turn up to them (although this thinking implies you are too bad to beat good players so I smirk at it when people use it).
In cash games, however, there is absolutely no reason to sit at a 6-max table instead of a 9-max one and furthermore DEFINITELY no reason to be at a headsup or 4-max table.
If you feel that you aren't able to enter enough hands at a big table that's totally fine and the beauty of Internet poker is multi-tabling is possible. So multi-table instead of moving to a smaller table if you feel capable of handling more hands per X time period.
Why do I argue this? No, not because there are more players to put money into the jackpot, that reasoning is ridiculous as that means more hands to outdraw you. On the contrary, my reasoning is far simpler; free folding. That's right, the concept that you can fold far more hands at 0 cost to your stack/bankroll than in smaller tables (even if only 6 people are physically at the 9-max table, you will find that means that most 6-max tables are only filled with 4 as it's a quiet period). So think about this; if you can fold more hands at 0-cost per X amount of hands, then you end up profiting more overall from your actual wins as the profits aren't seeping through, or are doing it as seldom as is feasible.
This is why I love cash games, everything about them is such that you can always be ensuring maximum profit before you even play a single hand. I am not going to rant about tournaments being bad, just that cash games allow the ability to even know for certain that you are in the most profitable version of the game type you are playing before you even sit down.
In cash games, however, there is absolutely no reason to sit at a 6-max table instead of a 9-max one and furthermore DEFINITELY no reason to be at a headsup or 4-max table.
If you feel that you aren't able to enter enough hands at a big table that's totally fine and the beauty of Internet poker is multi-tabling is possible. So multi-table instead of moving to a smaller table if you feel capable of handling more hands per X time period.
Why do I argue this? No, not because there are more players to put money into the jackpot, that reasoning is ridiculous as that means more hands to outdraw you. On the contrary, my reasoning is far simpler; free folding. That's right, the concept that you can fold far more hands at 0 cost to your stack/bankroll than in smaller tables (even if only 6 people are physically at the 9-max table, you will find that means that most 6-max tables are only filled with 4 as it's a quiet period). So think about this; if you can fold more hands at 0-cost per X amount of hands, then you end up profiting more overall from your actual wins as the profits aren't seeping through, or are doing it as seldom as is feasible.
This is why I love cash games, everything about them is such that you can always be ensuring maximum profit before you even play a single hand. I am not going to rant about tournaments being bad, just that cash games allow the ability to even know for certain that you are in the most profitable version of the game type you are playing before you even sit down.