Why suited connectors

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Articles View all articles. The ability to act last in a hand gives you the chance to win a lot of pots without having to get to showdown. Look at a picture of winrates by position for me from playing a mixture of 6max and FR games. I am making the most significant profits on button and cutoff. Check my winrate for 56s-T9s in cutoff and button below.

Looking at it, maybe I should work on my button strategy with them :D. Suited connectors are a hand that usually realizes its equity post-flop. If your hand is 6s7s and your opponent opens from the cutoff, you can clearly tell that this means they have a better hand. One of the major differences between playing suited connectors in cash games versus playing suited connectors in tournaments is that you get to play deeper stacks in cash games as opposed to tournament poker where the stacks are lower.

The stack size will come in handy since suited connectors are drawing hand. Playing opponents with bigger stacks means you get to win big when you hit. Here are a few preflop guidelines to help you play suited connectors in cash games. Poker is a fluid game where you need to adapt to opponents and take small profitable spots if they present themselves. Especially in cash games when you can rebuy, and you are not out like in a tournament. Playing your suited connectors postflop is identical to playing preflop because the logic is basically the same.

So how can you turn on profits with suited connectors? You simply need to look out for great opportunities to semi-bluff with your suited connectors.

In this situation, if the tight player bets, you should consider raising. In this situation, you need to play aggressively with your suited connector, and double gutter draw, instead of calling.

By raising in this position, you give yourself multiple ways to win the hand. You can proceed to finish your opponent off with a raise. This is where professional players rely heavily on the use of HUDs. If the math behind why it is better to check-raise here is unclear to you. Or you wonder why would just calling loose you money in the long term against a regular player? If that is the case, then you need to learn that. You can join a free poker coaching website , where odds and such play styles are explained in a simple manner.

In the end, it will depend on how you play it. So, here are a few mistakes you should look to avoid while playing suited connectors. Against a short stack, the stack to pot ratio reduces implied odds and reduces your ability to maneuver post-flop.

Hence, 3-betting against shorts stacks is neither rewarding or as effective as you would like. Most likely, you would be losing money if not deep enough. These hands will dominate your suited and suited. Such range of defending hands might crush you. Not a good spot to be in! This scenario could possibly end up with the both of you hitting trips or even a flush. Against them, you should widen your 3bet value range instead and 3bet hands that are otherwise just shy of being good enough to 3bet.

This one single move will increase your winrate nicely. There are 3 things to consider when trying to figure out which hand will make a good 4-bet bluff. They have implied odds, post-flop playability, and blocker effect. The blocker effect is by far the most important of the three.

Suited Connectors feature a negative blocking effect. These hands have good implied odds and solid playability, yet, they are undersized by the low stack to pot ratio in 4-bet pots. Consider a 6-max game with everyone sitting with big-blinds effective.

The player in the middle position opens with 2. These factors will leave you with a shortage of about 3 to 5 percent equity. You can call 3-bets with suited connectors with deep stacks. Since it takes most people several months to play this many hands at the very least , this means that most people could run bad for months on end.

Its pretty normal to start your poker career with an upswing and think, you are crushing the games, but in reality you have just been on a heater. And then at some point things turn around, and you are pretty unprepared for it mentally. The best advice is to move back to 2NL to regain your confidence and protect your remaining bankroll.

And then you should analyse your game. Go into your HUD and review all your big losing hands from the downswing period. Chances are, some of them are just coolers, but that you will also find hands, which you could have played better. Tilt come in different forms, but the one, I know from myself, is not wanting to fold, when I am running bad and losing. Its kind of human nature really.

When we are losing, we want to win our money back, and we cant win by folding. So I go into "to hell with this, I am not going to fold" mode and call my opponent down, even though I know deep inside, I am probably beat.

Yes if you lose so often then i play automaticly worse. I will try it further to come back to the top. Nice article! Yes if the tight player is bad. If they are one of the better regs, then I fold. Hi Nathan. First thing, your articles are great and your website is one of the best if not the best poker website I have seen. Second thing, for some reason I can't download your free poker cheat sheet. Got few times to the point where I need to confirm I want one by clicking the link in email from you, which every time I did, but unfortunately never got anything..

Would you be able to help me with that please?? Thank you for the kinds words Pawel I am glad my poker website is helping you! Make sure to check your junk email folder for my free book. If you still don't receive it, just send me an email and I will send it to you manually.

Hey ekw, You are right. Thanks for pointing that out, fixed now :. There are often mistakes in the own gameplay, for example a bad red line,that prevent some winning sessions. Basically poker is a game for thinking players and you have to use your mind plus your experiences from former hands to get better and better.

Working hard day for day should and fighting the leaks that everybody has should be done for winning in this game. And as you can see by the results of the hand, this advanced suited connector strategy tends to work extremely well, especially in low limit poker games.

By having what we call "the betting lead" more often going into the flop this will allow you to win more pots without needing to actually make the best hand. This is because you can often win the pot by simply continuing the aggression after the flop and forcing them to fold their hand. This is what winning poker players are always looking to do.