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 Some thoughts on Pocket 6s, 67 and KQ that you might not have thought of., SendMoney, 13. Aug 2003 19:45 | ||
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| In Hold Em you have to play all kinds of hands in all kinds of situation, and a few hands of particular interest to me are the ones in the title which I will give some thoughts on individually: Pocket 6s - These cards like most small to middle pair should generally be played from late position with many callers and are probably best discarded if there is a raise in front of you. Most of the time you're looking to flop a set cheaply or get out. However one advantage of holding 6s is that they sit over the top of the low straight, and if you have two 6s there is a good chance you're the only one who has a 6 in the hand. Every once in a while you'll find a board with 2 3 4 5 by the river, and every time you can exploit one or more player holding aces, sometimes they'll even re-raise you not thinking of the 6 until it's too late. We've all seen pots with 10 J Q K on the board by the river, with two players raising eachother and a 3rd player calling out of futility. Invariable two players chop with their Aces, while the 3rd player (usually a fish) holds a 9, or two pair, or even a set. In this sense the A actually becomes the 9 of the low 2 3 4 5 straight and the 6 becomes the ace, however you need to be careful of playing 6s on the low end of a straight, you're hoping for a 3 4 5 flop or a 4 5 7 flop and not so much a 7 8 9 flop. 67 - Basically the same ideas that apply to the Pocket 6s apply here. As always with non-pairs being suited is better than not being suited but I'm not advocating putting much value in chasing a 7 high flush, the suitedness should give a slight added value but it does not make the hand a monster. Once again the 67 dominates over the top of the low straight, and once again you should play it when it flops on the good end of the straight hopefully with a 4 and a 5 or a 5 and an 8 on the flop and not so much an 89, which would make a 9 10 (under gut shot draw) plain out. Much of the same strategy applies to a hand of 56, but 67 can win some ridiculous monster pots when there is a 2 3 4 5 on the board since Aces will pay you off, any other hand with a 6 will re-raise you, while you chilling with the Broadway of the low straight raking it in. KQ - First of all in limit games KQ suited or offsuit is a pretty good hand. I'm not one of these people that plays in mortal fear of someone holding AK or AQ whenever I have KQ, in fact usually your kicker is good more often than not especially at lower limits. One thing to consider about KQ is that it is the highest ranking hand that can flop an open-ended straight draw (two straight draws to the nut straight anyhow). Of course this requires a 10 and a J on the flop, but further consider when this flop occurs you will have the nut hand with a 9 or an A (8 outs), you have no fear of an overcard since the A will force hand like A10 and AJ to pay you off big time, and all the while your Q and K overcards MIGHT win you the pot which MIGHT give you an additional 6 outs, but that is up to how you read the relative strength of your opponents hands. That is if they have AJ or A10 and the flop comes 2 10 J then your QK overcards are good, but if they have KJ K10 QJ or Q10 then you'll have a problem, so if your overcard hits it might be best to opt for check/call, check/check or check/fold if there is heavy betting. In some fairly passive pots you should also hang around with pure overcards at least to the turn when the flop comes really low, example if the flop comes 2 5 9 then your opponents are more likely to hold hands like A2 A5 or A9 than they are to hold Q2 Q5 Q9 or K2 K5 K9 which would mean you'd probably have 6 clean outs to your overcards while with AK you'd likely only have 3 outs to the King with the tendency of players to play any ace, suited or not (especially at places where they have bad beat jackpots). Some other decent draws with KQ are when the flop comes 9 10 or 9 J both flops ace-free since you'll have 4 outs to the gutshot nut straight and 6 outs to your overcards which again MIGHT be clean. As always with the unpaired hands being suited is better than not being suited, but it is much more so with KQs than it is with 67s since it might be worth it to draw to the 2nd nut flush even if there is an A on the flop, while with a 67s you should probably have at least a gutshot straight draw or a pair on the flop to continue and not play the hand purely for the flush draw. Well if you got this far congrats, I'm a bit long-winded today, so...any thoughts or modifications to this strategy? | ||
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