Day two of making the most at the low limit tables

Set or Above

Your aim is to achieve these hands - hands that are the nuts or likely to finish up being the nuts by the river. You are going to be able to make most of your money from these hands. So you are looking at pocket pairs, decent sized connectors or one-gaps, and good suited cards.

Note the qualifications there :

(i) Suited cards must be good! This means either they are connected (so can win as a straight or flush), or that they drawing to the nut flush (or near) – Aces plus other suited or Kings plus other suited. It is not a question of playing any two suited cards. Ten four suited is a dog of a hand in any game, however loose.

(ii) Connectors must be of a decent value. Two three is not a good connector because it does not have maximum possible straights and it can only be the nuts in one situation. Jack ten by contrast can hit the maximum number of possible straights and will always be the nuts when you hit it.

Obviously this does not mean that you shouldn’t play the premium hands which really are key to other strategies. You just aren’t going to play them as aggressively. Ace King off suite is still a good hand!!