Adding suited connectors to your starthands

After a while you can add suited connectors to your starthands. Suited connectors are hands like: 7d-8d,8c-9c, 10h-Jh, etc. This is only for advanced players and could be dangerous to your bankroll's health. You sometimes play these suited connectors. In order to play play suited connectors, you need to have multiway action (at least three players in the pot). The problem with suited connectors is that they don't win the pot very often. So the best way to play these kind of hands is very carefully! If you're trying to play suited connectors, you have to learn how to fold them at the right time. This takes finesse, skill and, above all, reading ability. You can't learn poker in one day!

Some examples of suited connectors:

Play your starthands based on your position

One of the important basics of poker is: position. This aspect of poker is something the most players notrealize. During a play 'in position' means being one of the last players to act in a hand. That's why having position is a great advantage. You can just sit back and wait for everyone else in front of you to act. If an opponent bets and you are strong, then you can raise. If your ooppent bets and you are weak, then you fold. If your opponent checks, now you can act on your hand accordingly. By acting last, you get a better feel for the strength of your oppenents' hands.

Adding A-x suited to your starthands

What tactics should you adopt? My advice is to take a little bit from here and a little bit from there, and concoct your own style of No Limit Hold'em play. As you develop your own style, get rid of the tendencies that don't work and add some of the traits that you see in great players or read about here, but do it slowly! Make sure that a change in a move or a style works for you before you commit yourself to it for an extended period. Above all else, make sure that you're enjoying yourself when you play poker. Otherwise, what's the point? Only a few players can count on making money over the long haul in this game, so you had better enjoy the journey!

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