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So, should these hands played never voluntary?
There's a cool video by Annie Duke where she holds a lecture at a college and argues that
suitedness is not the reason why you should only play (small) connectors if they are suited. Because if you make the flush everyone can see it on the board. If you win with it you'll not get paid much because your opponent doesn't have a flush (or an even worse one). Against a high flush you'll lose your stack: Potentially small gain but potentially big loss. The suitedness is more of an 'emergency out' in a sticky situation with a runner runner or a lucky river.
She says:
The reason why she only plays suited connectors is that it prevents her from playing too many bad hands. If you play
every middling and low connector (which I'm defining as like 98o or lower)... and every gapper and 2 gapper and whatnot...then you are playing waaaaay too many hands that are behind preflop.
I.e. you're opening a massively -EV range against any moderately tight range...you'd need a huge skill edge to nullify that.
I found this a very interesting take on the subject.
As for playing them at all: Sure. E.g. as a resteal. I'm personally a sucker for 52s (which I've dubbed the "spanish inquisition"...since: "Nobody expects the spanish inquisition"
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Last edited by antialias; 05-16-2018 at 03:15 PM.