How do you play six five suited?

Six five suited is a low suited connector you open from the button and small blind, and about half the time from the cutoff, a hand built entirely around flopping straights, flushes, and strong draws.

Six Five Suited

Speculative

43.1%

Equity vs a random hand

4

Combos (of 1,326)

2/5

Seats that open it

Open it from the button and small blind, mix it in from the cutoff, and call raises in position with deep stacks. Like the other low connectors, its value is implied: it makes hidden straights and flushes that stack a one-pair hand, but it needs the right price and position to get there. From early seats and shallow stacks it is too speculative to play.

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

Common mistake: Opening it from early position or out of position. The lower the connector, the more it depends on position and deep stacks to be profitable.

Quick tip: A late-position draw hand. It flops big or it folds.