Ragged
A ragged flop is a flop that does not seem to help anybody much, with unconnected cards of different suits, such as J-6-2.
The simple explanation
A ragged board has no strong draws and no obvious pairs for most hands. For example, jack, six and two of different suits.
A closer look
On ragged boards, the preflop raiser often has the advantage, since he has more high cards. Continuation bets are common and small. A ragged board is also called a dry board. The best hand tends to stay the best, so there is less danger from draws.
A practical example
Full explanation
A ragged flop is a flop that does not seem to help anybody much, with unconnected cards of different suits, such as J-6-2.
A ragged flop helps nobody much.
The cards are unconnected and mixed suits.
It is a dry board.
A ragged flop
No-limit Hold’em · Blinds 1/2 chips · No rake
The blinds are 1 and 2 chips. Heads-up, the dealer (D) also posts the small blind.
Read the example transcript
Player A has the button (BTN) and posts the 1-chip small blind (SB). Player B posts the 2-chip big blind (BB).
- Preflop · Pot: 3 chips
The blinds are 1 and 2 chips. Heads-up, the dealer (D) also posts the small blind.
- Player A BTN / SB AAce of hearts (Ah)KKing of diamonds (Kd) · Stack 199 · In this round 1
- Player B BB 99 of clubs (9c)88 of clubs (8c) · Stack 198 · In this round 2
- Preflop · Pot: 8 chips
Player A raises to 6 before the flop.
- Player A BTN / SB AAce of hearts (Ah)KKing of diamonds (Kd) · Stack 194 · In this round 6
- Player B BB 99 of clubs (9c)88 of clubs (8c) · Stack 198 · In this round 2
- Preflop · Pot: 12 chips
Player B calls. Each player has put in 6 chips.
- Player A BTN / SB AAce of hearts (Ah)KKing of diamonds (Kd) · Stack 194 · In this round 6
- Player B BB 99 of clubs (9c)88 of clubs (8c) · Stack 194 · In this round 6
- Flop · Pot: 12 chips
The flop is jack, six, two. The cards are unconnected and of three suits, so it does not help anybody much. It is a ragged flop.
Board: JJack of diamonds (Jd)66 of hearts (6h)22 of clubs (2c)
- Player A BTN / SB AAce of hearts (Ah)KKing of diamonds (Kd) · Stack 194 · In this round 0
- Player B BB 99 of clubs (9c)88 of clubs (8c) · Stack 194 · In this round 0
Cards are shown for learning; totals are displayed before pot collection.