Over my lifetime, I'm a pretty big winner at fullring PLO, but a loser at 6max. I think it's because I play a basically nut-peddling strategy at fullring, with selective aggression, but at 6max I crank up the aggression too much. It seems like at 6max you should play more aggressive, but people generally realize this and are willing to call or play back at you light so your aggression doesn't achieve the goal. Is it better at 6-max to just play the same basic full-ring strategy, but just to take a few more stabs at pots and open up your flop calling requirements slightly?

Does anyone have any ideas about how to adapt to 6max?

To be honest I think adjusting is overrated in that you don't have to do all that much differently. Granted I don't know what the hell I'm talking about, but it seems like at the lower limits anyway you can get action on your hands very easily because it's 6max and people like to spew shorthanded. This is also true in NLHE, even up to 50nl and beyond. Most opponents do not realize that you're the postflop nit who's not putting in a raise without the goods.

Now I suspect that as you move up, and you face tougher competition, you'll have to loosen up quite a bit so as to get action.

One practical adjustment I've made is 3-betting more. Because it's 6max, players are opening pots more liberally than they would in full ring. Additionally you're in position more often in 6max. I like to 3-bet hands that play pretty well heads up but not so great multiway, like KJT8ds or JJ66. No one's ever folding to 3bets in these games so they'll call you with absolute trash like KT22ss or J847. In full-ring I very rarely 3-bet at the micros because most players don't open non-premium pairs...

I'm also willing to felt weaker draws than I would full-ring, like NFD+gutter, by itself a modest holding, but not so bad when your opponent's range is so wide open. It's worked out well for me so far. Lots of players fold, anyway, because it's 6max and you have to bet pot like a monkey, and then when you get raised obv you cannot call with a pair of deuces because God knows you've already hit running quads twice today and the site just ain't THAT rigged.

anyone want to chime in? my PLO experience is the opposite of my NLHE. in NLHE I have some trouble beating FR, I don't really know why, but I can handle 6max. In PLO I struggle in 6max. I need to learn the transition since there are always way more 6max tables running than FR. I'm trying to put the work in and move up properly, and it's not happening unless I learn to beat 6max

one main adjustment I've made is to play more like I do NLHE, like a 25/15 style instead of a more loose/passive pf game in FR. But it seems like I don't get enough playable hands, and I'm folding too much...maybe I just need a larger sample