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Please give me some advice...
I know the value of suited connectors, and often play them, particularly if I can see a cheap flop. My question is this - statistically, how much worse is say 8D 10D, compared with 9D 10D? Should I be playing 8D 10D, or should I be folding more often? Thanks.
 
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Personally ... I play this hand in mid-tournament on a cheap flop unless I'm in position when I may raise them if i know what my opponents are like. But i would fold the gap connectors!
 
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I think a lot depends on position and your opponents strengths and weaknesses. In my experience suited connectors do not return a lot if a hand is played out but I do use them to steal from late position if my opponents are weak. I would rarely play gapped suited cards unless I had the A.
 
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My question is this - statistically, how much worse is say 8D 10D, compared with 9D 10D?

Install PokerStove and you can get an easy answer to your question. Against Stove's top 30% hand range Td9d is only 1% better than Td8d (61-39 vs 62-38)

Connectors and gappers are all about pot odds to call and implied odds to showdown. If you have a table full of limpers that love to go to showdown with TPTK, 2P then these hands are good to play in LP when you have 4+ limpers ahead of you with players inthe blinds that are also likely to just limp. Then if you hit you can extract a lot of value for your play.
 
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Suited gappers can hit some well hidden monster hands with the right flop, so by all means see a cheap enough flop with them. As said above though, dont play the low cards. I wont just see them if I have the Ace (A J is a playable hand anyway!), but i'd probably draw the line at 8 10. Much prefer the J 9 hands upwards.

Dont forget, your hand odds only improve by 3% by having suited cards. So if you wouldn't play 7 9 off-suit, dont play it suited!
A lot of players (particularly new and low stake players) really over-value suited cards. Dont fall into the trap.
 
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it all depepnds on what you have in your bankroll if you are ina tourny and have 10k then do it for a small bet...but if you have 1000 and its 200 to call DO NOT DO IT haha
 
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