Concept of the Week #8: Evaluating Board Texture

[Bostik]

Originally Posted by VeeDDzz`

Nub question but what does the x mean in JTx?

"Anything else".

To make this as illustrative as possible, consider these two boards:

Originally Posted by board #1

J 6 T

Originally Posted by board #2

5 T J

They both contain JT and then a third card. That third card is the missing "x".
Yes, "x" can also be an ace.

[F4STFORW4RD]

Originally Posted by Bostik

There is one final category of boards which are good to know. Have a look at the list of potential cold- and overcalling hands; remove the aces and leave everything else in. Note how the majority of hands that coincide with wet flops have a biased selection of ranks between eight and jack.

Brilliant post, only part of it I am not sure about is this. Any chance of a little clarification, please?

[udbrky]

What he means is, a ton of hands people call with pre are things like:

Ax
pairs
T9, 98, 87, JT, etc.
broadways

a lot of them are between 8 and J

[tr8cer]

In case you are wondering why all the bumps for cotw threads. 2+2 is about to update the forum software and will be archiving all threads that have not been active since last February. Since the COTW threads are invaluable I am going back through cotw threads from 20009. Trying to do it all in one go during the night to lessen annoyance of taking up space in the unl forum.