How do you play seven six suited?

Seven six suited is a low suited connector you open from the cutoff, button and small blind, a hand that flops big draws and disguised straights but rarely wins without improving.

Seven Six Suited

Speculative

45.4%

Equity vs a random hand

4

Combos (of 1,326)

3/5

Seats that open it

Open it from the cutoff, button and small blind, and only now and then from earlier seats. Call raises in position when the stacks are deep. It makes well-hidden straights, it makes flushes, and it flops plenty of draws, all of which can win a big pot against a one-pair hand that never sees it coming. It needs position and depth to be worth playing, because it almost never wins a pot it does not improve in.

In the GTO solver's 6-max ranges this hand opens for a raise from the cutoff, the button and the small blind, and sometimes from UTG and the hijack.

Common mistake: Playing it for value with a weak pair. Seven six is a draw-and-implied-odds hand, so a pair of sevens or sixes is not a hand to commit chips with.

Quick tip: Disguised straights are the payoff. No draw, no hand, most of the time.