I'm curious what percentage of your overall cash winnings come from the big hands vs the smaller hands.

I'm not talking about pot size here, but the types of hands.

I'm calling big hands things like...
flopping a set vs. an overpair/top pair
AA vs KK/ AA vs an idiot going crazy pre
flush over flush/set over set/straight over straight
coolers of any sort

Smaller hands being things like
continuation betting, with or without hitting.
bluffing
picking off bluffs with mid hands
value betting mid hands


Hope that makes sense.

I'm sure that people playing 6 max will have a larger % in smaller hand section than in FR, but i'm hoping to hear some answers from people playing (or who have played) in either or both of these.

I think in any form of poker them majority of your profits will come from the smaller pots.

It's because most people know how to play their big hands correctly. Nobody is going to misplay a set TOO bad, or fold the nuts on the river. They will however misplay worse hands by either calling when they're behind or folding when they're ahead. It's for this reason that we'll make more money when we play out medium hands better than they play their medium hands.

I didn't exactly word that the way I wanted it to come out but I think my point still comes across.

And of course everybody will get an even distribution of hands so when you get AA vs KK you're going to be on the other end of it just as often. You might be able to profit a little from this scenario in the long run by correctly folding KK in certain occasions that your opponents might have called, or by say extracting more value with your AA against somebody else's JJ, but I think this difference isn't as large as the difference between how people play in more trickier situations with less well-defined hands.

I was just gonna say the opposite of GLR.

You might be right to some extent Roy, but there are alot of hands where people just have brain cramps and totally screw up a big hand. Even good solid players.

Example: I stacked a guy with my AA vs his KK even though I flopped an ace. The poker gods gave him an escape from KK vs AA and he still didnt take it.