Practical Poker Math

Suited Connectors
Suited connectors are hands that can offer great opportunity.
A Rags Flop with small to medium suited connectors
can sometimes leave the player in a dream situation: a big
hand or big draw that is completely disguised.
The primary caveat for playing these hands, especially the
connectors of medium to low rank, is that the player must
have either
♦ a firm indication that there will be a large enough
final pot to make the draw worthwhile, or
♦ a strong indication that some or all of the
remaining players might fold to a properly executed
bluff or semi-bluff.
2 Suited >>> Flush Draw
With 2 suited cards in the hole, calculate the odds of flopping
a Flush draw by first finding the number of suited 2card
combinations possible from the remaining 11 suited
cards — Comb(11, 2), and multiplying it by the number of
unseen cards not of that suit (52 – 13 = 39), resulting in the
number of Flops that WILL make a Flush draw.
Next, subtract the WILLs from the total number of possible
Flops (19,600) to find the WILLNOTs. Reduce the result and
you have the odds of flopping a Flush draw with 2 suited
cards in the hole:
(11 * 10) = 55
(1 * 2)
79
Before the Flop