The final section in this set of tutorials concerns suited cards and late positioning. Before continuing, we received a number of emails from custom poker chip users regarding the definition of ‘late position’. Late positioning is basically the last three seats (when you count to the left of the dealer button). These are the positions at the poker table where you can afford to be slightly more liberal with your custom poker chip stack and the cards you choose to gamble with.

6. Late Position Suited

If you receive suited cards in late positioning at the poker table, you are obviously going to be at your most flexible in terms of the starting poker hands you choose to play. This allows you to be slightly more liberal with your custom poker chip stack. In addition to the recommendations in previous pages, we suggest the following:

• If you are dealt King-9 suited, you should really be limping in from a late position at the poker table. It is worth gambling some of your custom poker chip set on this poker hand as the cards are relatively close, creating the potential for a straight. If a King pops out on the flop, with no Ace in sight, you and your custom poker chip set will benefit with this top pair.
• You should also be limping in with the poker starting hands 10-9 and 9-8. They are not worth standing a raise with your custom poker chip set but you may as well get into the custom poker chip pot on the cheap if you can as there is potential for a straight. You shouldn’t limp in with any suited connectors less than 9-8 as any pairs you happen to spike will usually be worthless given the likelihood of there being overcards on the flop, turn or river. Save your custom poker chip set if you get suited connectors less than 9-8.
• You should limp in with your custom poker chip set with any suited Ace as in middle position.

In addition to this advice, we suggest that if you are in one of the last two seats at the poker table, with extremely tight players only to act after you, you must raise with any of the poker hands you have previously been told to limp in with. This only applies if there is no other poker player in the pot at this time.