Mix Max Poker Rules
Mixmax Rules are a great way to automate additional workflows on top of what Mixmax already delivers. If you need to make sure those common repetitive tasks can get taken care of without you having to give them a second thought, Rules is a great place to start. A typical example is the mix-max event held at the 2012 World Series of Poker, in which the first day of play was nine-handed, the second day six-handed, and the rest of the tournament heads-up. This effectively made it a hybrid freezeout–shootout tournament, with freezeout play at larger tables and shootout play in the heads-up phase.
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Every year the World Series of Poker offers a wide range of variants and game types for poker players. Without question, one of the most popular choices is six-handed no-limit hold’em.
Many are familiar with full-ring NLHE, but the short-handed version brings significant changes to strategy, as WSOP bracelet holder and World Poker Tour champion Taylor Paur explained to us yesterday.
Paur has nearly $3 million in career live tournament earnings, the largest chunk coming from his victory in the most recent WPT Shooting Star in San Jose where he topped a 708-entry field to capture a $1,214,200 first prize. Paur won his WSOP bracelet in 2013, besting 2,071 players in a $1,000 no-limit hold’em event for $340,260.
The 26-year-old poker pro from El Dorado Hills, California also has experienced considerable short-handed success at the WSOP, twice making final tables in six-max events. Paur finished fifth in the $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Six-Handed Championship in 2011, then took sixth in last year’s $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Six-Handed event.
With a focus on players who are used to playing full-ring (nine- or ten-handed) NLHE multi-table tournaments, here are Paur’s six tips for those getting started with six-max tournament poker.
1. Overall Adjustments
“Just tighten up,” Paur begins when addressing how to adjust from full-ring to short-handed play. “Try to play solid. You’re better off not playing too many pots, and play the pots you enter to win.”
“That’s much better than trying to get involved in a lot of hands against good players,” he continues. “Just play the hands you play aggressively.”
2. Avoid Overplaying Hands
Many players new to six-max tournaments will overcompensate and feel they need to change their games dramatically from full-ring play. Paur warns inexperienced players against this, noting how in theory you don’t need to alter your game a lot.
“It is easy to overplay your hands, and a lot of people feel the need to change a lot of stuff when they play six-max,” says Paur. “In this format you just get into a lot more situations postflop where you need to be able to read hands with lesser strength hands, instead of just playing premiums.”
“Inexperienced players get themselves into very big pots they can’t find a way out of,” he continues. “That’s how you see many people bust in the early levels of a six-max tournament, especially the lesser experienced ones.”
3. Blind Play
Since the blinds come around more often, adjustments have to be made when you’re playing short-handed. Paur explains how you should be defending your blinds more often and three-bet more, too, because the opening range from every position is a little bit wider.
“It’s up to personal preference whether or not you like to put in more three-bets or calls, and there are lots of different views on that. A lot of these GTO (Game Theory Optimal) guys seem to say that calling everything out of the big blind is the best way to go. I don’t agree with that. I like to mix it up based on how my actions are being perceived by the person I’m up against, [and from that I will decide] whether or not I’m going to three-bet or flat or fold. And, of course, it matters what cards I have.”
Also worth noting is the fact that the small blind presents a completely different situation than does the big blind. As Paur explains, the small blind is his least favorite position, and probably one from which to be extra cautious.
“I don’t mess around in the small blind,” says Paur. “I don’t believe people who mess around from the small blind, and I don’t expect them to believe me. I’m scared of the small blind — it’s like a pet peeve.”
4. Adjusting when Under the Gun
Things start to look up once you’re under the gun, but it’s still not a position from which to go crazy. One important point Paur makes is that those who are new to six-max need to start thinking of the positions at the table in a different way.
“I personally think of under the gun full ring as if it were 6-max, but it’s basically middle position when you’re full ring. My opening range is probably too wide, so I don’t take under the gun as serious as it sounds.”
5. Playing from the Cutoff
Things start to get fun when you’re in the cutoff, where open-raising almost feels mandatory if the right person is sitting to you left.
“A lot of your play in the cutoff depends on who is on the button,” Paur explains. “If it’s someone who’s not going to mess with you, you can treat it as if you are on the button. If it’s someone that’s willing to go to war, you might have to go to war.”
“On the other hand, you might have to tighten up a little bit, but that all depends on who your opponent is, and the flow at the table.”
6. Playing from the Button
The best position in poker — and it really doesn’t matter what format you’re playing — is the button. This is no different in six-max no-limit hold’em, and Paur closes out with some words of wisdom on playing six-handed tournaments from most fun position in poker.
“You can obviously play more hands from the button, just because you always have position and that is very important,” he says. “You have a wider opening range from the button, and you can play more hands.”
There you have it — you no longer have to fear the short-handed action at the WSOP, at your local casino, in your home game, or online. Even when your cash game gets short-handed, you know the approach to take — so don’t panic and start raising from the button!
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Mixmax Rules are a great way to automate additional workflows on top of what Mixmax already delivers. If you need to make sure those common repetitive tasks can get taken care of without you having to give them a second thought, Rules is a great place to start.
Here's a quick overview of rules in Mixmax:
Basic rules are available on our Growth plan, and advanced triggers and targets, such as Salesforce and Pipedrive, are available on our Enterprise plan.
To access Rules, go your Mixmax dashboard, then click Rulesin the sidebar on the left.
Standard Processing Timeline
Getting Started with Rules
Creating a new rule
To set up a new Rule, click on the New Rule button.
You'll then be presented with a series of steps that you need to take to get your rule working.
Every rule follows the same pattern:
Trigger when something happens, check that these Filter conditions have been met and, if they have, perform this Action.
Start by giving your rule a name, this will help you identify it in future so you can quickly make changes.
Next, you need to set up what this rule actually does.
Trigger
The rule trigger is the action that will start the rule. Select which activity category in Mixmax you want to be the trigger for this rule:
Some triggers have multiple options, while others do not. If a trigger has multiple options you will be asked to select which option you would like to use from a list. If a trigger only has one option, you will automatically proceed to the next step when you select a trigger.
Filter
Next, you can set some conditions that this Rule needs to meet, or not meet, in order to continue. This is called the Filter. You can add as many conditions as you like, using any of the options that populate in the dropdown for the particular Trigger you chose above.
Each condition is made up of three parts. For example, if you wanted to check that the subject of an incoming email was sent to a specific email address, and that the subject also contained a specific keyword you would set your conditions up like this:
You also have the option of using a time based condition called Time of day. This setting allows you to delay the next action until a more appropriate time. For example, if your Then action is to send yourself an SMS alert but you only want that to happen during business hours, no matter when the When portion of your rules is triggered, you can use this condition to make that happen, as shown in the image below:
Advanced Filters - And/Or Groups
For more complex precise filter logic, you can create Filter Groups on the Filters step. Each filter group can contain it's own And/Or logic. When creating filter groups, using the 'If ANY of the following are true' option will create an OR filter, while the 'If ALL of the following are true' option will create an AND filter.
For example, let's say we want to create a Rule that only triggers when your email is opened three times, and only when the email is from either your 'Welcome 1' or 'Welcome 2' sequences.
To do this, first we will need to set our filter to only pass when All groups are true. This will create an AND filter for all filter groups under this statement.
Next, we need to create two filter groups:
Our first group is a single filter for when your email is opened 3 times.
Next, click the Add Group button to start creating our second filter group.
In our second group, we will create two new conditions using the Add Condition button, one for each sequence.
We will use the 'If any of the following are true' option in the second group. This will create an OR filter so the filter will pass if either option is true.
Our filter now says 'Trigger if my email is opened 3 times AND the email is from the sequence 'Welcome to Mixmax 1' OR the sequence 'Welcome to Mixmax 2' '.
Action
Finally, you need to decide what happens when your trigger and conditions are met. Just like triggers, actions are displayed in categories. You will only be shown options that are compatible with your current triggers and filters.
You can have your rule take additional actions by clicking the Add Action button.
Activate your Rule
When you're finished setting up your rule, click the Close and Activate button to save and turn on your rule.
That's it, you're ready to go with the powerful automation that Rules allow you to create. Active rules will have a green toggle switch on your rules list:
If you're looking for some further inspiration, check out some of the examples below.
Example: Send sales collateral prior to a meeting
You can have Mixmax automatically send an email to meeting participants when they confirm a meeting with you.
Say you schedule sales meetings to demo the product. First, create a sequence with a template of what you want to email:
Then set up a rule to automatically send the first stage of the sequence to anyone that confirms a meeting (with demo in the title):
Trigger: When a meeting is confirmed
Filter: Title contains Demo
Action: Add them to sequence
You can even delay sending and/or configure the time of day you want the Demo materials sequence to be sent! Then all you need to do is send your availability using Mixmax. When one of your invitees confirms, they'll automatically be sent the demo materials.
Example: Collect customer information using a poll
If you’re like us and frequently use Mixmax Polls to learn more about a customer’s interest in your services, you often send polls that look like this:
You can set up a rule to automatically email leads interested in Advertising using a sequence:
Trigger: When someone votes in my poll
Filter: Poll question is What type of lead gen are you interested in?
Filter: Poll Vote is Advertising
Action: Add them to a sequence
Example: Forward urgent emails to your phone
If you’re away from your inbox and someone emails you with urgent in the subject, you can forward the message to your phone via SMS. Don’t want to be disturbed during the day? No problem, use the time of day condition:
Trigger: When I receive an Email
Filter: Subject contains Urgent
Filter: Time of day is between 8am and 9pm
Action: Send an SMS notification
Example: Send notifications to a Slack channel
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If you're looking to broadcast activity in Mixmax in a wider way, then sending notifications to Slack is a great option.
You'll first need to authorize Mixmax to send notifications into Slack, you can do this by clicking the Mixmax Integrations link that appears when you select the post in Slack option.
Note: If you are not an Admin of your Slack account, you will need to ask the Admin in your team to authorize Mixmax.
Once you're authorized, you can choose which channel you would like your notifications to be posted in.
Example: Post to a webhook
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If you want send the raw JSON event data from any of the triggers in the When section of a Rule to any other service that supports webhooks - such as Zapier, or your own custom code - you can do so using the post to webhook action in the Then section of your Rules setup.
Mix Max Poker Rules Pdf
Using Zapier is by far the best way to connect Mixmax to a multitude of other applications via webhooks, so check out the example we created that outlines how to do this.