Beyond the bread and butter big pairs that come in any poker player’s repertoire, most any kind of player you can think of has middling hands that he tends to favor. Whether it be because of a history of winning with a random two cards, a symbolic transference, or simply that you like the way two cards look together, it is easy for a poker player to get stuck on a hand that most others would fold.
Of those, the ten jack suited is probably the most commonly praised kind of connector. Besides the fact that it flops the nut straight more often than any other, it also has two that add up to twenty or more, another popular indicator for hands people tend to want to play. It’s gained such a reputation that often people will put even more than should be out on this kind of hand, just for the idea of it.
At the game I used to frequent, seven nine became a popular hand that most anyone at the poker online table could be expected to play, for no reason other than one night a certain player won many huge pots with it. Whenever that hand made the nuts from that point on people would shout it out, calling attention to the fact that it seemed to always hit, even though in reality it was no more common to be helped that any other.
