Suited Hole Cards With One Or Two Gaps

First of all you should read about gapped hands here   One more hand and Ill go home only one hand Youve been sitting in this back room for 6 hours and all the time you saw nothing except small gapped hands ugly hands And now you have:  Its not the best hand but its better than any other hand you had this evening. Is this hand playable? Well, it can be playable if, for example, there are no bets to you. Now, lets imagine that youre sitting with this hand in middle position. And there were no raisers. Quite the contrary. All players folded to you. And though you can limp its better to raise to blow out drawing hands. As you guess, its a bluff raise.  Another situation when Q9 suited can be a playable hand is when youre a Blind. So lets say youre in the Big Blind with the same Qd 9d, there are 3 players and the flop is:  Actually, its better to check and try to get a free card. A flush threat is too obvious. Of course you can try to use it and bluff, but you can find yourself on the river with nothing. So if youre raised after you checked fold.  Now lets suppose that youre in middle position with the same hand and the flop is:  You have a great draw: a flush draw and an open-end straight. So you should bet. Why not check-raise. Because you dont have a made hand and you dont want your opponents to hit on the later streets.When is it better to fold a hand like this?- If youre in early position- If youre under the gun- If youre in the big blind and there are two or more bets to you.