Playing Your Position With Suited Connectors
April 26, 2010
When playing a cash game usually like to lead out with suited connectors regardless of what position I’m in. I especially like small to mid suited connectors or even one gap connectors as they are very hard to detect. It’s hard to imagine that someone would lead out with a 4d5d or 4d6d. Depending on the crowd that I’m playing with, if I’m in the pot, I’ll play my hand aggressively no matter what I’m holding. But I really do have a soft spot for suited connectors.
Like I mentioned earlier, I’ll usually raise the pot with suited connectors, so if I have a few callers I’ll start putting them on hands preflop. For this example let’s say that I’m in late position, and I raised 2.5x the blind with 5s6s. I got flat called by the big blind and one player before me. Right away I can feel the surge of excitement knowing that I’m in last position with cards that I am partial to. I would start to assume that the big blind has adequate cards, and just wants to see a flop, and the other caller has a bit better than the last. I’m in pretty good shape. I didn’t get re-raised so it would be safe to assume that I’m not up against pocket pairs, or high suited cards. Most probably a baby ace, or a suited king.
When the flop is shown I never look at it right away. My eyes are focused on the other two players, and I try to soak up any information they can give me through their physical tells. Big blind sits back, and as he lets out a breath, checks. Ok, I’m taking your money. The other player takes a glance at my chips, then at his, then checks. I’m going to assume that he didn’t hit and is wondering if he could push me out of the pot. My stack is bigger, so he probably wouldn’t want to risk all his chips on a bluff while he’s out of position. At this point I’m going to go ahead and put in ¾ the pot because I’m pretty confident nobody hit, and I can take it down right there.
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