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I agree with the advice that relative to limit, speculative hands become more playable. Pants' point is excellent that hands that hit the nuts have special value -- suited aces are one of my favorites.

I'd just caution a beginner to not go crazy with speculative hands. Medium suited connectors cost me a lot until I figured out that a) they're not as powerful as they sound, and b) I suck at playing them. They have the nifty feature of drawing to 2nd-best a lot, so they take skill to exploit fully.

The best hands in limit (AA-JJ, AK, AQs...) are still the best hands in no-limit.