I think it captures the instinctive reaction of most players. ‘Wait a second…it’s almost impossible not to make a straight!’ When I first saw this game, I recall my first thought being: As you can imagine, this leads to a lot less discoordination and makes it far easier to make a strong hand. There is no card in the deck below a six. They were consistent contributors to dry boring flops, blank turns, and no one ever making a hand. 6+ Hold’em (known conventionally as ‘Short Deck’) has been taking the poker world by storm and giving jaded long-term players a fresh breath of life as they gamble it up in this wild format of the game played with a 36-card deck. Let’s face it – fives, fours, threes, and twos got in the way a little bit in regular Holdem.
Everyone posts an ante and only the button posts a blind – known as the ‘button blind’Īvailable in cash games, exclusively at PokerStars, 6+ Hold’em is your chance to play an action-packed variant loved by high-stakes players around the world.All cards lower than a six are removed from the deck.6+ Hold’em is a popular ‘short deck’ poker format that plays much like Texas Hold’em, but with a few exciting differences:
