Hey, thanks for being here. I'm very excited to announce three bonus episodes
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something. So we're gonna give you three episodes. It's gonna be three episodes,
three days in a row, all about Suited Connectors. I'll tell you
up front, they'll probably be a little bit of overlap here, So look,
that's that's just bound to happen, coming at it from three different angles.
Today, we're giving you a Suited Connector primer, So we're doing a
little primer on suited Connectors. You know, probably a little more than a
than a primer. Tomorrow we'll go into some Suited Connector basics again kind of
an overview. There will be a little bit an overlap, but we'll cover
some some new aspects of Suited Connectors. And then on the third day,
we're gonna have these Suited Connector ten Commandments, which is a list of ten
rules and premises for playing Suited Connector that I think will help you with your
game. The reason I came up with this is because over on Patreon,
where well, I think we have like I don't know, it's like seventy
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or sixty people that are fans of the pod, but just on the Patreon
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which prompted to me to do some very detailed stuff over in Patreon for
my patron. So got some video breakdowns on Sudo connectors and how to play
them, some deep dives and stuff, and I'm like, you know what
I think I'll do, like, you know, a primer and basic series
for as a little bonus for you guys that listen to the free podcast.
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Well, you know it's free. What I gonna say, you get what
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that being said, let's jump right into day one of talking suited connectors.
Going to be a suited connector primer for you. There'll be text that goes
along with us down in the information text section of the podcast if you care
to review it. Basically, it's just going to be telling you what I'm
saying, but it's down there if you want to review it. Here we
go, introduction to suded connectors and a primer what are suited connectors? Hopefully
you know what this is, but some of you may not know what it
is. I know we have some very very new players that message me from
time to time. Basically, it's two cards in sequential order that are of
the same suit. For example, seven of Hearts and six of Hearts.
They're in sequential owner seven six and they're in the same suit. They're both
hearts. So there's a wide variety of suited connectors. Worst suited connectors would
be like three deuce suited right, three hearts two hearts is not the best
one. There's some really amazing suited connectors like King Queen suited all the way
up at the top end of the ranking. But they're very powerful and so
doesn't matter if they're big, middle, low, whatever. As long as
they're sequential and they're suited, that's a suited connector. So why are we
talking about them? Why are suited connectors so important? Well, they do
a few things. They one, they add some deception to your pre flopped
raising ranges. They have playability across multiple streets, they're easy to get away
from when you miss, and they can stack opponents with great imply dodds.
I'm not to do too much of a deep dive on this, but you
know, if you're always just raising with pocket aces and pocket kings and pocket
queens and ace king and pocket tens, you've become pretty predictable. And while
you shouldn't be in there just raising with everything all the time, in certain
spots where you can raise a hand that can yield you some results like a
suited connector and throw it in there and people see that, hey, just
not always raising with aces and kings. It'll help you get more When you
have hands and make hands, people be more apt to call you or pay
you more than they would if you're super super super nutted all the time.
So that's one benefit that you can play them across multiple streets and One of
the great things about suited connectors is a lot of the times, while you
may not just flop a flush or flop a straight, you will hit a
flop that gives you a pair in a flush draw, a pair and a
back door straight draw, a gut shot in a straight draw, a gut
shot with a straight, and a flushtraw. You know, just all kinds
of different combinations of hands that will allow you to continue to a turn.
Whereas things like pocket fives, for example, because people love playing like pocket
threes, pocket force pocket fives because you can hit a set and stack somebody.
The problem with those it's kind of hit or miss, you either hitting
the flop or you don't. You can't can't really play those across multiple streets,
and suited connectors you can very easily play them across multiple streets provided that
you get the right flop. They're easy to get away from. Now,
not everybody can. I've seen a lot of people that will flop bottom pair
with a suited connector and she just can't vold it for whatever reason. But
if you're any in any kind of way a reasonable thinking player, they're easy
to get away from when they don't have that much value, so you're not
going to lose a ton with them. And then finally you can stack opponents
when you have great imply to its. So stacks are really deep. You
have somebody that gets married to their pocket aces, you can stack them.
You know, you can stack somebody when you hit your straight and they have
a set. I mean, it's just a lot of different things that can
happen that can cause you to stack somebody. So what are the different ways
to play suited connectors? How should you approach them? Well, there's several
ways, but I would say primarily you should always be aggressive with suited connectors
from late position, especially primarily late positions. Avoid playing them early. You
just get in a lot of trouble when you try to play suited connectors under
the gun very much. I'm not saying you never can in the right game
and the right setup, the right set of circumstances. You know you could,
but for the most part, you just really want to be playing them
in later positions. And you'd also play them passively sometimes as well. So
I would say primarily I like to be aggressive with them, but sometimes you
can play them passively. And I would say mainly from the button, although
you know, without getting too deep into the weeds, there's other times that
you could as well. So let's talk about playing suit of connectors pre flop.
Right, So we touched a little bit on it. When you should
When should you play suit of connectors in pre flop scenario? Well, I
like to mainly play them from late positions and play them for a raise or
a three bat. Now you can do this as a raise over one or
two limpers, you know. So let's say you're in the cutoff or the
button, and you know, under the gun, one limps and Jack limps,
and you're in the cutoff for the button and you've got you know,
seven six suited, come in for a raise with it. Maybe you get
blinds to raise, maybe get everybody or fold, Maybe get everybody to fold,
or maybe just get one caller, maybe get two callers, and you
have position. This is a pretty good outcome for you any way, especially
for your reasonable at playing post flop. You can also three bet with them,
right, And I would say that mainly when you're three betting them,
you want to be three betting somebody who can have a wider range, right.
You don't want to be three betting a knit who just only raises with
aces and kings and Ace Queen or Ace King rather, you know, three
betting them is probably not the smartest idea. But when you have somebody that's
capable of raising you know Pocket sevens and Jack tin suited, and you know
Ace ten suited, and you know King Jack very type holdings like that,
you know, three betting them can be very, very very profitable. The
main thing is either way that you go, using your position post flop when
you're in position will help you win a lot. So how should you play
suited connectors against different types of opponents? I just alluded to this just a
little bit. But let's say you're on the button with seven hearts six of
hearts, right, you got seven six suited now versus a raise by a
knit, you should just call. If stacks are deep and you can get
enough, imply odds right. Some of these knits, man, they just
can't let go of pocket ass. They can't can't. They just can't let
go of pocket kings. So if you flop to pair, you flop pair
and a flush straw, you flop a straight. You flop a straight and
a flush straw, you fly a lot of equity. Perhaps you make it
and get there on the turn. It's just it's so hard from the fold.
So if stacks are deep enough, you can get a ton of imply
to odds. So you don't want to be three betting them pre because their
range is so tight, so so tight, that they're just going to come
back over you one of the time. You're just gonna have to fold.
So this is one instance when I like just calling with our suited connectors.
If you're playing a versus a reasonable player, a thinking player, somebody has
more of a standard or wider opening range, you can three bet a lot
in the spot when they open from positions like lowjack, hijack, cutoff or
whatever. Come in for a three bet, you get a fair amount of
folds, You get a fair amount of just flat calls in. That's either
one of these are good for you because you have position and you should win
more than your fair share of hands if you're good at playing post flop versus
a lag. So this is somebody's just raising a ton of stuff, right,
and they're raising coming over raises with all kinds of stuff. You can
mix calls or three bet. I would say most importantly, you want deep
stacks, right, you want some imply to odds. I prefer three bets.
You can certainly call them sometimes, but I think three bet is almost
always the way to go. Just remember, the wider somebody's opening ranges,
the more you can three bet them. So what are some common mistakes to
avoid when you're playing pseudo connectors pre flop? So there's a few I'd like
to talk about always calling and going super multi way. There's this old saying
going back to way back when I first started playing hold them in it's early
two thousands about boy, pseudo connectors are great because you don't mind playing super
multi way with them. Well, so it's a little bit misleading. You
don't mind playing super multi way with them. But as with all hands,
they play way better when your head's up, or way better when you're three
ways or whatever, then they do when you're six ways or seven ways.
So I just see a lot of people going, oh, suit of connectors,
I just call because I don't care how many people were in the pot.
Well, the problem is that is you open yourself up to reverse and
ply odds against better straits, better flushes, et cetera. Right, you
can just you can get over straightedge, you can get for sure overflushed.
And the more people that are in the plot with you, the more apt
this is to happen. And so while sure they aren't a horrible hand,
they can play super multi way for sure, not the best way to play
them. Another mistake not three betting them when the circumstances are right, and
we talked about that a little bit earlier. Not raising with them pre flop
again, we talked about that as well. And then people that try to
play them too much from early position, like under the gun, under the
GUNN one, I mean, it's really hard to turn them into winning hands
from that spot. It's really hard. We'll talk about playing suit Connectors post
flop. How should you play suit Connectors. You know, after you see
a flop, well, you want to be aggressive with big draws, especially
when the board doesn't favor your opponents. So a lot of times you will
be in a spot where your opponent has raised and you just call right,
just be primarily when you're on the button, primarily against a very specific type
of opponent, and you can be aggressive with them when the board is just
very very bad for them, right, And this should be low middling cards
even if you don't have a straight gar flush draw. Know, sometimes even
with the top pair, sometimes when you have gut shots. Sometimes when you
have top payers with back doors and so not really strong hands, but a
strong hands when your opponent misses a lot, you do have something and then
you also have some backdoor equity to gain as well. In case you get
called on board where your opponent has a nutted range, it doesn't make much
sense to raise, as you just never win with a fold. So when
you're playing post flop and the range comes and it should make your villain very
nutted a lot of the time, you know this would be a time to
play them less aggressively. You don't want to get blown off your draws in
that spot, so be sure make sure you're aware of the distinction between the
two different sets of circumstances. And i'd say you want to raise and play
your very best draws aggressively like payers and flush draws, straight and flushdraw straight
flush draws. You know these types of situations, there's definitely spots where you
want to be more aggressive with them. What are common mistakes to avoid when
you plan suited connectors post flop. I think I've already probably cover that what
I've said so far. But always calling with draws, like, if you
just always call them when you have a draw, you're not playing them nearly
effectively. You need to be picking up some pots, you know, before
you get to the river and see if you hit your drawer or not.
Right, there's a lot of spots where you can just raise pick it up
on the flop, or raising pick it up on the turn. So,
especially when you're super multiwave, always calling to me in a passive, not
only do we just miss a lot of times and not win and you didn't
have any other way picking up with the plot, but you also allow better
draws to come along too. So better flush draws come along with you sometimes
and you get the old reverse implied i'd sing. So in conclusion on this
suit of connector primer tips from proven your suited connector play raise the three bit
more preflow raising three but more. If you're on of those people, always
call them with them. You can immediately prove your game by raising and three
betting more pre flop, primarily in later positions. Cut off a button for
sure, be more aggressive post flop, especially with big draws, but also
in spots where it's not a good flop for your opponent, be aggressive with
all your strongest draws and then you know, I would also say against opponents
who are more nutted, you want to kind of reverse this and kind of
go into a calling strategy as well. So I hope you've enjoyed this first
episode where we're talking about pseuited connectors. In this Suited Connector primer, it's
kind of a brief overview, but I think we had some tips, really
good information in there, things that you can flush out yourself and you just
start working on yourself when you're trying to play suited connectors in your game.
I bet yell a lot of you probably heard things that you're doing that you're
like, yeah, I do that a lot. Maybe you do a little
bit less, and then I think maybe you heard things that maybe you're not
doing it, you know, like you know what, I should pray be
doing that more. Uh, never fear. Tomorrow, we will be doing
another episode on Suited Connectors. It be Student Connectors basics tomorrow. There'll be
some overlap of the material, but overfully be able to present you with some
new stuff, some additional stuff to help you improve your suited connector game and
just let me extend to you a personal invitation if you really really want to
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