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The Real DeCoy · #7 (**permalink**) 12-20-2005, 10:09 AM

If SSH is your first book or just one of the first few, the idea of continuation bets with overcards is dicey and heavily depends on position. If you're early, check, if you're LP raise. Its a feel thing. If you are not currently winning the hand and you think your raise will get you heads up, go for it. If your raise is just going to enduce a bunch a callers, then you are pissing money. I hope this helps.

In regard to your suited connectors question you have to factor how many people are in the hand. I dont play 87s heads up. Its not going to win too often. However if you have 3-4 people in the pot, now you are getting pot odds to hit your flush and its worth seeing the flop. If it doesn't hit 90% of the time I'm out right there. If I get a two-suited flop and the pot odds are good I'll chase. If I get a flop with a pair I usually check unless I think I can get folds out of a raise. Two pair I look to check raise.

Think about the situation you are in. You are not trying to win pots, you are trying to win money. If you are going to play a marginal hand, make sure you get paid handsomely when you win. I hope this helps you.

If you haven't seen "Internet Hold'em" you should get a copy of that book too. I just got SSH so I haven't looked at how they present starting hands, but I liked IH because not only did it tell you what hands to play in which seats, but also how many players you need to have in the hand to make it a profitable venture if you hit. Perhaps SSH does this too and I will be finding out as I read it on my flight to Vegas at the end of the month.