A New Approach On 6 Max Position

As I sat down to get a session started yesterday I decided that a couple things would be changing since my last post. The first being my daily average minimum hands that I am shooting for is 1000. The only reason I am doing this is because with my current physical problems and enduring pain there are days I just can't play. If I can possibly get in more than 1000 hands on some of the "better" days, then maybe I can average the 1000 hands daily for upcoming January and 20,000 for this month.

The second thing is I was talking about position and starting hands my last post and it just seems to me that in 6 max there should be a further adjustment regarding position. one seat at the table representing a certain position just seems a bit inefficient to me and I thought to myself, "what if I reduced it to simple two, early position, two spots, and late position, two spots, and additional hands for button blind steals. It would look like this........

EP
AA-22
AKs, AQs, AJs, ATs, A9s, A8s
AKo, AQo, AJo, ATo
KQs, KJs, KTs
KQo, KJo
QJs, QTs

LP:
Add

A7s-A2s
A9o-A7o
K9s, K8s, K7s
KTo, K9o
Q9s, Q8s
QJo, QTo, Q9o
JTs

Button Steal

A6o-A2o
K6s-K2s
Q7s, Q6s
T9s-87s

And as for the button steals it all depends on what the HUD shows me in this regard. When I have 2 blinds that fold to steals 90% of the time I'll pot raise preflop with any two cards, so it is completely player dependent.

As for separating this into EP and LP I think the hand selection is most appropriate. Wide enough range that my opponents can't put me on a specific hand, but strong enough hands for the relative position. I am very curious to see what this type of approach will show me in numbers. Before deciding on this new approach this is what my numbers showed.

Hands: 5361
Profit: ($9.68)........... Unacceptable
VPIP: 16.25%................... Unsure
PFR: 11.6%.................. acceptable when in conjunction with the VPIP
3BPF: 5%........................ acceptable
Att Steal: 22.67%....................acceptable

It's funny because from what I have seen at full ring the norm these days is tighter than ever.  It used to be 15-25% vpip for 6 max was the norm.  Is it still?  Has it lowered?  Not sure.  The reason why this is a concern to me is that if my vpip is too low I am not extracting value from hands that are being folded.  It's still in the trial and error stage and I will do a PT check after 5000 hands of this newer approach.

So I got on the waiting lists about 630 ready for some poker action. A bit later than usual, but not working again til Wednesday morning so time was not a concern. The pain was bad but, I wanted to try to get in some hands. Did not last long. Went down over a buy-in, rebounded and then the pain in the leg from the ulcer and the inside ankle from the neuropathy was so intense I had to get off the tables only getting 385 hands played but a small profit of $1.47 of course $1.41 of that came from getting dealt AA 3 times.  We'll see how things go down later today.;

Play well.