Hand Analysis: 6-10
The six ten doesn’t have any nicknames that I know of. Want to know why? Because no one ever plays it. Unless you’re a total wild loon, you’re folding this hunk of junk to the scrap heap every time it comes near you, and so there isn’t time to name the poker online hand.
Rather than just toss this hand off, though, as one that you should always throw away, let’s think a little longer about the nature of junk poker hands. If we’re dealing with the amount of hands that would normally be played for value, then before we even look in the hole, we know we’re going to be folding more often then not. Part of the thrill of the game then is the peek, and in the finding of those rare hands that work together as potential for becoming something later on.
It’s important to narrow down those hands that end up causing you less utility of value in the long run, but it also important to keep your game open enough that you don’t spend a 99% of a six hour session folding every hand. So sometimes, in the slowest periods, raising even with a junk box like 6 10 can be okay, in that you need to get your blood flowing, keep the table action available, and that when the bigger hand does come for you you haven’t been folding for four hours straight. Variety, aggression, image, timing, and attention: these are the elements of the poker player, regardless of what is in his hand.
