OK here's my answers. Keep in mind im a 400 NL full ring player and am used to dealing with a lot of sharks lol.

Answer to Question #1) The reason you play suited connectors with position (as opposed to without position) is

1) You can raise a bet on the flop and give yourself a free card on the turn if you are on a draw (which suited connectors generally are)

2) It is very important when drawing to a straight or flush to have position on the person you are drawing. This will give you much cheaper turns and rivers and you will be paid off a lot more.

3) Semi-bluffing becomes a lot easier, since you have position. The guy has a hard time playing back you.

4) It is easier to know if you hit a pair whether you are ahead or not.


Answer to Question #2) This depends on whether or not you have position on the pre-flop raiser (PFR). If I have position I call up to 4.5x BB extra. If I dont have position I call up to 3x BB extra. You really cant tell if they have a higher pocket pair or not by their raise, people raise with all sorts of weird stuff.

Your goal should be to play for a set and destack the PFR if you hit. However, you should look for times when you're ahead of the PFR and make a move then (i.e. he checks to you)


Answer to Question #3) Calling large raises with suited connectors out of position is not a good idea genearlly. However if you have position you should call up to 4x BB. So calling a 4+x BB raise with suited connectors from the blinds is generally a bad idea.

Also, you shouldnt be calling with any suited cards you see or Axs (with x < 9), as both have problems in raised pots. Axs only does well if you hit your flush, otherwise the hand is complete trash. Similar problems with the other random suited cards.

Also don't call with connectors, for the most part they are not that strong. Hands like 64o are for the most part garbage, though they are better than hands like 72o. Probably the only ones I would think about are 87o, 98o, T9o, and JTo and I would never call a raise with them, I would just raise with them to try to steal the blinds and/or a late position limper. So my suggestion is dont call a raise with connectors, they just arent that good.


Answer to Question #4) There are different kinds of suited connectors. The strongest is JTs, and all non-gapped suited cards are very good as well. I would include: 45s, 56s, 67s, 78s, 89s, 9Ts as well. QJs plays very different and is kind of a weird hand. It is a very dominated hand so be careful when calling raises with it. In calling a raiser JTs is better than QJs and about the same as KQs.

One-gappers are mostly OK as well: such as 46s, 57s, 68s, 79s, 8Ts, 9Js.
TQs falls into the same catagory as QJs. KJs is a completely different breed of hand, similar to KQs, and isnt really a suited connector. Obviously one-gappers are not as strong as 0-gappers so keep this in mind when calling raises (i.e. be more strict on how much you call).

I am not as big a fan of calling with two-gappers, though if I do call I'll call with 96s, T7s, and J8s as they are the strongest three. Q9s is pretty much garbage and KTs is good for attacking late position limpers and the blinds and thats about it.