Suited Connectors
Generally useless but every once in awhile they hit those completely disguised monster flops and you rake in a huge pot. My question is, in tournaments when are good times to play these hands? Is it ok to call a raise with say 810s on the button? What about 47s or 52s? 23s is rarely played, so where do people generally draw the line? And how much emphasis on position matters in playing these hands? I read somewhere recently that some people prefer 910s rather than AJo in Early Position. This makes sense because suited connectors when they miss (or even when they sorta hit) are pretty easy to get away from. Also they can be really good cards to semi bluff draws with. So when are good times to play these hands and when are bad, and I'm thinking of specifically of tournaments at the moment, but really any general type analysis would be good.
The reason that made me post this FYI is I recently had 1700 chips in a 4$ dollar donkament on Stars and I had 810s on the button, UTG +2 Raised 3xBB which was 300 chips at the time. I folded only to watch the flop come down 9 J Q. The player got one caller and moved all in on the flop immediately. He showed KK.
I died inside a bit.
My thinking was that I didn't really have enough chips at this point to be calling raises with stuff I'm usually going to have to fold to a c-bet. But as it turned out I would have won a huge pot.
Thoughts?
The reason that made me post this FYI is I recently had 1700 chips in a 4$ dollar donkament on Stars and I had 810s on the button, UTG +2 Raised 3xBB which was 300 chips at the time. I folded only to watch the flop come down 9 J Q. The player got one caller and moved all in on the flop immediately. He showed KK.
I died inside a bit.
My thinking was that I didn't really have enough chips at this point to be calling raises with stuff I'm usually going to have to fold to a c-bet. But as it turned out I would have won a huge pot.
Thoughts?
Comments
I prefer suited pairs though....makes everyone a little tilty for some reason......
The odds of 78 flopping 69T is the same as 57 flopping 469.
So the odds of making a straight is the same as making a 9 high hand?
Interesting......
wow...I missed seeing the missing 8....this is why I still have donkey status.
Suited connectors are iffy. They have both implied and reverse implied odds aspects to them. The better you can read your opponents, the safer it is to play them. If you're deep against people who don't fold post flop, they go up in value a lot. If your opponents are great hand readers, they go down in value a lot.
Always play them in position. Never play them out of position. Someone said once they were better in raised pots, but I'm not exactly sure if that is true or not.
lol