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Short Deck Hold'em, also known as Six Plus Hold'em, is similar to traditional Texas Hold'em. Players are dealt two hole cards and the hand proceeds with four betting rounds and five community cards (a three-card flop, turn and river) just like Hold'em. The main difference, as the name implies, is that Six Plus Hold'em is played with only the cards that are six or higher in value.

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All of the 2s, 3s, 4s, and 5s, are removed from the deck (hence the nickname six plus or Short Deck), so instead of playing poker with a 52-card deck, it is played with a 36-card deck. With the deuces through fives removed, the sixes are the lowest cards in the deck.

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Despite its similarities to Texas Hold'em, there are some significant differences in the hand rankings, strategy and rules of the game.

Short Deck Hand Rankings

Perhaps the biggest difference between Six Plus Hold'em and Texas Hold'em (besides the number of cards in the deck) is the hand rankings. Because the total number of cards in the deck is reduced, the mathematical odds of being able to make certain poker hands changes. It is this change in odds that dictates the change in hand rankings.

While there can be some variance in hand ranking depending on where the game is spread, for the most part, there are two important hand ranking to note:

Three-of-a-kind Beats a Straight

One might think that removing the deuces through fives would make it harder to make Straights, but the card removal means that all of the cards left in the deck are closer in rank than in a 52-card deck, meaning Straights are actually easier to make.

Also, just like in traditional Hold'em, the ace can be used as high or low when making straights. In the case of Six Plus Hold'em, the ace still acts as the highest card and can makes the highest straight AKQJ10, but it also can be used in place of the five making the smallest straight A6789.

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A Flush Beats a Full House

Card removal makes it harder to hit a flush than in traditional Hold'em, as there are four less cards of each suit. As a result, flushes are moved up in the hand ranking above full houses.

You can see all of the hand rankings for Six Plus Hold'em side by side with those of regular Hold'em in the table below (ranked from the highest hand to the lowest).

Where to Play Six Plus Hold'em

With the recent boom in popularity of Six Plus Hold'em, there are now several places to play the game online.

iPoker Network

One of the more popular places that players gather to play Six Plus Hold'em is at Red Kings which is on the iPoker network and offers a large international player pool that provides the liquidity needed to ensure that more games go off at the times you want and at the stakes you want to play.

Americas Cardroom

Short Deck was recently added to the offshore US facing poker room, Americas Cardroom on the Winning Poker Network (WPN). Another room on the network that offers Six Plus Hold'em is Black Chip Poker.

Soon be Available on PokerStars

Last month, pokerfuse discovered that PokerStars may be planning on adding Six Plus Hold'em to his game offering. When that happens, the game is likely to be added to its dot-com player pool first (although PokerStars is known to test games out in segregated European markets such as Italy).

Adding a new game to all of the regulated markets that PokerStars operates in will likely require additional testing and cutting through plenty of red tape to get approval from gaming regulators in those markets.

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6+ Hold'em is a popular 'short deck' poker format that plays much like Texas Hold'em, but with a few exciting differences:

• All cards lower than a six are removed from the deck
• Everyone posts an ante and only the button posts a blind - known as the 'button blind'
• A flush beats a full-house and Ace, 6, 7, 8, 9 is classified as a straight

Available exclusively at PokerStars 6+ Hold'em is your chance to play an action-packed variant loved by high-stakes players around the world.

The Rules of 6+ Hold'em

All 6+ Hold'em games use a 36-card deck (with all cards lower than a 6 removed), which is shuffled before every hand is dealt. Games also use a 'button blind' structure: every player posts an ante, and the player seated at the button position is the only one who posts a blind – meaning there is only one blind per hand, rather than traditional small/big blind format.

The action starts with the player seated to the left of the button. Each hand then plays out according to Texas Hold'em rules, with pre-flop, flop, turn and river betting rounds.

If you've played Texas Hold'em games before, the rules of 6+ Hold'em are easy to follow.

But don't forget: contrary to regular Texas Hold'em games, in 6+ Hold'em a flush beats a full-house. A five-card hand consisting of Ace, 6, 7, 8, 9 (any suit) is also deemed a straight. All other hand rankings remain the same.

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Learn How to Play 6+ Hold'em for Free

If you want to learn how to play 6+ Hold'em, then Registration the PokerStars software and join any of the free poker games where you can play online against other players. Unlike our real money poker games, since there is nothing at stake, you can be comfortable learning the ropes of the game and all the rules of 6+ Hold'em. We hope to see you in our poker room, and good luck at the tables!

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