Suited Connectors

Do you consider 3/4 or Q/J (or 2/3, A/K, KQ, A/2) a true suited connector? Not sure how to word this...but since 3/4 and Q/J don't have 3 cards to both their high and low straight possibilities?

I see a lot of advice about how to play suited connectors, and need to know if they are referring just to 4/5 through 10/J, or if they mean any two cards that are numerically in order and suited.

Thanks.

I don't see jqs a sc only in a mult way pot. hands like 89s or j10s are. I think that because jq is likely to hit top pair while 78s isn't goof to very often. I have 3 rules when I play with a decent sc 56s+

mult way pot
implied odds
see the flop cheaply
in good position

Good question.

I tend to think of SC's as being JT down to 54.

Damn. If only I answer the ques then I can do 1 line answers. I say sc are from 56s to j10s. Also hands like 97s are just as usful

AKs and 32s are suited connectors. They're suited, and they're connected.

AKs will never flop an oesd obv, and as you point out not all sc's are likely to flop big combo draws. The higher the sc, the more likely we are to hit TP hands, the lower the less likely. The more combo draws we can flop the better. 32s is ridiculously speculative for example.

tomh7795 said:

Damn. If only I answer the ques then I can do 1 line answers. I say sc are from 56s to j10s. Also hands like 97s are just as usful

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79s is useful, yes. But that would be a 'suited gapper', not a suited connector.
Any two cards that are of the same suit and run consecutively are suited connectors. Some have better chances of hitting than others - 4/5s up to 10/J have a couple of extra percent of catching straight draws - but all are similar strengths pre-flop as far as straight and flush possibilities.
Suited connectors can catch some excellent flops if you can see a board cheaply. And, strictly speaking, the lower your cards the more people will expect you to have missed the board, so the 3/4, and even the A/2 & 2/3 are worth trying out from time to time.