Mods is it ok to post some online 6 max LHE hands here?

i have been heehawing around in 1/2 online and seem to be overplaying and playing too many hands. Want to improve my shorthanded game.

I'm not a mod but please do!

Ok, I guess thats enough permission for now, first housekeeping

About 1700 hands, VPIP 35( I think should be closer to 30?) PFR is 17(too low?), 3 bet is 7. WTSD is 41, WWSF is 37(should be 40ish), WSD is 55

My ideas compared to full ring-please correct wrong think
1. Broadway cards have more value as you will be HU more
2. Is Ax more playable because shorthanded? I overvalued it at first I think
3. Blinds come more often so I have to widen my range slightly to compensate
4. More blind defense required.

The games seemed pretty aggressive and spotty to find a full/mostly full table, with 1-2 empty seats often, so I took a couple months off, played last night and the game was more passive with a lot of open limping and was 6 handed almost the whole time, sometimes 5 handed. Hoping it it is more regular or maybe I just got lucky last night.

Rather than trying to make adjustments to playing short-handed, you are better off just imagining it is a full game and everyone has folded to the lowjack. In other words, your button opening range should be basically the same as if everyone folded to you on the button in a full game, and your blind defense should be the same as if someone raised from that same position in a full game.

So if you’re playing in a six handed game aren’t A9o, KTo, , QTo, etc. raises UTG?

If you would open those in the LJ in a full ring game, you’d open them UTG in 6max.

I think the best thing you can do when playing shorthanded is to not over-adjust. We actually want to play a more balanced strategy and take advantage of the people who play far too aggressive or far too loose passive shorthanded.

To that end starting out we’re going to want to play very solid and taggy until we understand what exactly it is our opponents are doing wrong. Ultimately you will be involved in more hands, but that’s because we’re starting from 9handed middle position, and blind vs blind as well as bb vs button play is more common, not because we should be playing significantly looser from those positions.