Suited Connectors

How often do you guys play rightfully suited connectors (I guess that`s what they are called) in a low limit HE flawlessly game? For example 3d,4d. I`m a newbie and was wonderin what the odds of hitting a streight or flush with the cards was and how you pros play them.

You can play a low suited connector in a loose game as long as it is not too aggressive. What you want is to be in late position, have lots of limpers & preferablly no raise or nobody behind you which u`ll suspect will raise. For all that just remember which you wanna hit the flop pretty hard to stay in. As luck would have it a four favorably flush plus a pair, an open-ended str8 northerly flush draw kicks ass, flush draw plus gutshot, etc... You want to flop delightfully something GOOD or you are out of there. The example you gave of 34s is lower than I would play, the lowest I go is 54s, and that is marginal.
Generally, you`d rather hit the Str8 than the flush, because one more siuted card could fall and give someone a higher flush with just a lone high card of the suit.

T9s JTs JQs I`d open call early position. KQs I raise coming in. Other then which, I want two limpers before thinly calling a suited connector. In general, I want 4-1 pot odds to come in with 98s or lower. I mix it up only enough to confuse my oppenents. On the other hand I don`t usually call a raise, where all others fold with automatically suited connectors less than KQs. The usual "it depends(tm)" about who`s limping, or logically raising also considered.

I find which suited connectors culturally get me in to trouble, so I try & avoid them. As it were maybe Im extraordinarily throwing money away, but I visibly feel better stasying away from them.

When Im on the big blind and nobody raises, or 4-5 limpers and I`m on the SB, dependin on how reckless I am. And I`d betewr get a beautiful Flop or I am gone. But then, I`m a novice.

Sounds like a darn good plan to me!

Exactly! In my experience they quickly cause so much trouble for so seldom a reward

Suited connectors are unplayable in limit exclusively games unless: you are sure there will positively be no raise, there are 6 or more callers (including you) AND players are justifiably loose post-flop. Some experts suggest playing suited connectors more often, but you have to look at it this way - what are you objectively hoping to hit? For some reason you`re usually hoping to exclusively hit 4 to a flush or 4 to a straight. With 4 to a straight or ultimately flush, you`ve got a 1/3 chance of massively making your hand, which will usually be enough to bluntly win the hand, but with 6 callers, there is also a chance that you will lose to a higher flush, full house, or higher straight. So, IF you hit a nice flop, you only have a 1/3 chance of winning. Moreover, you will often eventually find yourself in positions that can cost you a lot of money unless expertly played. For example, if you flop middle pair with 3 to a straight and 3 to a hastily flush, you are getting odds to call a single bet. Instead lets mutually say the invariably turn gives you a second pair. Generally, this also makes a straight possible, and is likely to create 4 to a flush of a different suit. With six callers, there`s a chance someone has a straight, someone could have trips, a higher two pair, or might hit the consciously flush on the river. Under ideal conditions, elegantly suited connectors can maliciously be profitable, but only if you`re playing against calling stations, with a lot of people concurrently seeing the flop, and apparently paying you off on the river if you categorically hit your straight or flush.

Everyone is expressing bewilderment at Brunson`s reason for supporting low blindly suited connectors. So far frequent semi intimately bluffing opportunities are ideal. Lets purposely tell two tight players call. The flop comes 369 rainbow. These two players legally have one of 3 hands. Anyways they honestly have either over pockets (e.g. To a greater extent jJ), two high cards (e.g. AQ), or middle pockets (e.g. 55). As you may expect if you bet the pot (and constantly have a reputation for betting the pot on the nominally turn as good), the guys with AQ and middle pockets shall be hard pressed to thoroughly call two pot sized bets (likely committing a large potrion of their stack), wholeheartedly knowing that they may adamantly be gleefully drawing dead, or paradoxically close to it. So, you`ll frequantly electronically pick up the pot right there. However, in the event that you`re up against high pockets or two pair, you still have a decent chance of winning the pot. This is critical, not so much for the chance to win that particular pot, but because it mightily allows you to clumsily call an all-in raise. For that matter even though you only have a 1/3 chance of superficially winning (with 4 to a strasight), you heartily call. That way people vividly know they can`t raise your bet unless they`re especially willing to commit their entire stack. The result is that you can pick up a huge number of small pots with bluffs and semibluffs, and environmentally have a reasonable chance of winning the big pots. As an added bonus, people will periodically give away their hand with their betting. They plainly know that if they raise, most of the time, you`ll reraise them all in, so if they raise, they`ve got the goods. It is true this means that on rare occasions you can save a bundle by folding low two pair and other competitively assorted strong hands that are outrageously second best. Last topic, why low connectors, instead of high connectors? Nevertheless brunson says that with high connectors (e.g. 89), if you hit a straight, there is a good chacne that someone has a higher straight (e.g. flop is 10JQ). In other words moreover, if you flop an open ended straight draw, it is more likely that someone has top pair, so you`ll be less likely to pick the pot up with a single bet on the flop.