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Originally Posted by browni3141
....the 6-max game tree is really just a sub-set of the 9-max game tree. In some sense, the game does not really "change." Parts of the game are cut out. People who think they need to adjust their strategy are incorrect or using a very weak positionally unaware strategy in the first place......
And HU is just another sub-set, too?
Lots of low-level players do use "a very weak positionally unaware [or nearly so] strategy". They get very uncomfortable playing short.
"Cutting out parts of the game" shouldn't affect the hand strategy of a given individual hand situation, but does affect the distribution of hand situations as experienced.
The players who go crazy over having seats open, or who refuse to start a game unless it's full or nearly so, dimly understand that the "subsets" at shorter tables do require (and reward) adjustment (within good positional poker), but they're either ignorant of what the adjustments are, or are uncomfortable making them, or they realize that playing shorter will tend to expose the leaks in their game faster.
(And they just hate putting up the blinds more often.)