How do you play six five suited?

Open it from the hijack onward 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 a balanced 6-max game this hand opens for a raise from the hijack, the cutoff, the button and the small blind.

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.