Good players |Poker Strategy|

Good players usually welcome a hand of this type at declaration because it gives them ample possibilities for misrepresenting and winning a big pot against weaker opposition.
On the first round you call the minimum bet. Your next upcard is the ? 7. This would normally give you an adequate low, but not a raising hand (not enough near cards for a straight), so you simply call the bet on this round.

Your fifth card (open), is the ? 6. This is just the opportunity you have been waiting for! You have represented a low hand thus far. With the exposed pair of sixes you will probably be the high hand. You therefore continue what your natural reaction would be if you had started with a low hand. You check. Even if all the other players appear to be going for low, and do not have straight or flush possibilities, you do not raise on this round; you simply call if another player bets.

What you hope to gain from this strategy is simple enough. You are trying to create a fixed impression in the minds of the other players that you have a low hand, or are trying to make a low. You may gain nothing from this, but it may well bring you the entire pot. At the showdown, players with broken lows (especially those who have paired up at or near the end) may believe you have a better low hand, and either nothing for high or that you have no intention of calling high. They will therefore call high against you-and slam up against your three sixes (or more). (Needless to say, when this occurs and you have to show your hand, you announce that you were lucky to have caught a six on the last card-assuming the game permits such coffeehousing.)