The Coordinated Flop
A coordinated flop is any flop that makes a straight, flush, or full house posssible on the flop. Playing against a coordinated flop is much risker than a blank flop. For example, let’s have us starting with the biggest hand possible-pocket aces.
The flop is: JJ4. We are behind to any Jack and crushed by pocket fours.
The flop is: Q109. We are behind to Q10, 109, QQ, 1010, 99, J8 and we are definitely concerned about all the other hands holding any Jack or Eight.
The flop is: Jh6h2h and neither of our aces is the ace of hearts; now we are concerned about a made flush and/or the flush draw.
Sometimes you will hear the term semi-coordinated flop, which simply means two of the flop cards are either in order (QJ, 98 etc.) or one off (J9, 86), either way a straight is possible. The two card flush flop is also a semi-coordinated threat and of course any paired flop is a danger.
The simple idea is that coordinated flops are more difficult to play a big pair against unless your hand also has possibilities of drawing to a bigger hand.
-This is Beginner’s Poker Blog Post #143
