Suited connectors are Doyle Brunson’s favourite and a starting hand you can win really big pots with.

Its connected cards in the same suit, J-10 clubs, 9-8 spades or Doyle’s favourite 7-6 hearts. Suited connectors are often easy to play because if you miss the flop totally and someone bets, you will have no problem to fold. But if you hit the flop hard you can win a huge pot.

Suited connectors are almost always playable. If you are first in at a full ring table it’s probably best to just call, but from middle or late position you can almost always raise. If you are first in at a shorthanded table you can raise from any position. If someone have raised in front of you, you can call if the raise isn’t too big. You should newer call with more than 10% of your stack with suited connectors; you need big implied odds with this hand. And to call with as much as 10% you have to have position on the raiser. Your goal is to flop two pair, trips or a draw.

If you raised pre flop you should continue to bet on almost any flop. If you missed it completely you still have a good chance to succeed with a bluff. Remember that your opponents will often put you on a pair or a big A when you raise pre flop.

If you where the caller pre flop you need at least a good draw to continue to put money in the pot.

When you hit the flop good you are of course in a very good position and shall play it hard and aggressive. It’s very hard for your opponents to put you on the correct hand. If you hit two pair against a pre flop raiser with a big pair, you will probably take his whole stack. And if you where the aggressor pre flop and hit the same medium two pair, your opponents might think you are bluffing with A-K.

But remember that you often need to play suited connectors aggressive pre flop. You need some fold equity to make this hand really profitable.

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