Hand Analysis: 8-Queen
Queen eight gets the nickname ‘Kuwait,’ for its similarity in sound to the country. It’s another one of those big + little hands that you can’t really do much of anything with, unless your table is just really letting you abuse them. Hands made up of one big poker card and one medium or little card just don’t have much value in the game of poker online, as there are very few flop that you could hope for (two pair, maybe, or trips or a full house, though even these can get you into trouble against a bigger hand). Anytime I see a player with this kind of big little online poker hand showing down to the river with it, I make a little checkmark beside their name, or in my mind. They are going to be the ones I target to be playing weaker hands when I am playing strong ones, and ready to give me their chips when I am ready for them to. Flirting too much with middling hands might win you random pots, but in the long run it’s just going to set you up for a spill. I’d like to be the one there when it happens, as it’s fun to eat dinner off of somebody else’s ‘queen eight’ money.