Strategy for Playing the Queen-Jack

As a general rule, this hand is most certainly not a raising hand before the flop. You should only limp in and gamble the lowest amount of custom poker chips possible. Faced with even just one raise of custom poker chips, you should muck your cards and just watch that poker hand! If you then go ahead and manage to luckily hit the queen or the jack on the subsequent flop, you have a pretty good poker hand and one that is worth getting your customized poker chips involved with. The pot is now probably worth a raise as you start to attempt to dominate the poker hand.

All you should watch out for when gambling your custom poker chips on this type of poker hand are the poker players who have cunningly limped in with a jack and a better kicker than you, or those who have limped in with a very small pocket pair and have managed to hit a third to complete their set (a card which looks useless and harmless to you). These sorts of poker players will rinse your custom poker chip stack unless you are cautious and watchful.

Obviously if you hit the queen and the jack on the flop, you must gamble strongly with your custom poker chips as you are most likely have the best poker hand at that stage. Why hold back your custom poker chips and allow another poker player to get the privilege of a free card? But if a flop displaying much straight potential comes out, you must be careful as other poker players love playing middle-aces and lower suited connectors which can create large dents in your custom poker chip stack if you are not prudent enough to spot it!

Once again, the way you play the hand depends on the style of poker players you are gambling with. Will they raise with anything? If so the Q-J is a pretty good hand from a middle-late position and one which you ought to get your custom poker chips in with. If they are a solid, tight bunch of poker players, these hole cards should almost invariably be mucked. Remember, a jack is only one step away from a 10 and not many of you would call a raise of custom poker chips with a Q-10 would you? A much better idea is to muck the cards, save your custom poker chips and thank your lucky stars you read this strategy guide before you started gambling!