Ran across this from last year again.................

I recently came upon Buster Highmun's post about a hand and how he played it according to the philosophies of Ben Dover. I think Mr. Dover's work is not the ultimate authority on poker play, but his starting hand selection is marvelous. For those of you who have not read it, here goes:
Top 10 hands:

"You MUST limp raise with these ALWAYS, even if you are in the big blind. The important thing about the limp raise preflop is that it's really hard for your opponents to put you on a hand.

1. 89s
2. A9o
3. A3o
4. T7s
5. J6o
6. 55 sooted
7. 46o
8. 69o
9. 23h
10. AQo, but ONLY with the queen of falcons.

The most important thing about having an offsuit hand is that you can make 2 flushes instead of just one. This gives you a HUGE advantage when 4 ofthat suit come on the board, because this is the time when you will get the most action from your opponent."

What Mr. Dover says about play on the flop:

"Look for opportunities for multiple draws and then redraws on the flop. For example, if you are holding QJs and the board comes Ks 6d 4c you have the nut 3 straight and the second nut 3 flush. This means that if the perfect card comes on the turn, you can pick up 8 or more outs to win on the river. "

The turn:

"You NEVER want to make your hand on the turn (unless it is a royal flush)because there is still one more card coming. Someone out there always has at least 15 outs no matter what nutty hand you just made, so if you make the stone cold nuts on the turn, e.g. 88 on a K884 board, you should usually let it go if there is a lot of action. Someone is almost guaranteed to make quad Kings on the river, or is holding 56 sooted and will spike that sooted 7 on the river to straight flush you right down the proverbial holdem toilet. "

The river:

"No Limit Holdem is undoubtedly a river game - therefore, if you make that flopped 3 straight or flush, you most likely paid a lot of money to get it there. This is why river play is almost inconsequential. If you are drawing (and if you've been studying my book you MOST CERTAINLY will be) you should usually have all your chips in before the river. Therefore,the only advice I can offer you for river play is to just turn your cards over, stand up on your chair, scream "The deck has deservedly taken a giant SHIT on me!" and stack your chips, hiding your highest denominations
behind your lowest so every one of your opponents will ALWAYS get
distracted when they ask you, "How much you got left?". "

Misc:

"One of the most important things to know when you start off playing white chip games are that sunglasses are a MUST. The gleam from the white chips will eventually make you go blind and as a consequence, you won't be able to see your hole cards. This is why you routinely see people playing garbage at white chip tables, they're so blind they think AK is 74o. For those of you lucky enough to read my book you will know this - therefore,it is correct to play 84o in most situations because you will have them outkicked. "