That is the type of thing Doyle Brunson says. What he means is, if there are a bunch of players in, and he has gone in with suited connectors (say 6-7 of hearts), then he hopes that the flop is something like A-4-5 with two of them being hearts. In this situation, he wants somebody to have made trip aces (and hopefully somebody else to be holding AK) because they believe they have the nut hand (and they are leading at that time). However, he has two chances to get one of 15 possible cards which will help him. If he does not get the magic card on fourth street, but he gets a 6 or a 7 (of which there are 6 left in the deck) he then gets 5 more cards to help him on the river (the other two of what came up plus the other three of what didn't). On the river, he might have 20 out of 44 cards to help him -- almost even money. There is a risk on fourth street that, instead of a 6 or 7, one of the A,4,or 5 came up at which point he is dead unless he has the 4,5,6,7 of hearts (in which case he has only 2 out cards). If there were a lot of players before the flop and then, after the flop, the AAs bet aggressively with the AK calling, then he knows if he makes his straight or flush chances are he will win a big pot which will overpay him for the risk he is taking (although there is a risk that the AK is also of hearts which is why he likes making the straight better). His theory is that he wants to win big pots and steal antes. The problems with high card hands (like AA and AK) is that they are obviously good hands and it can be hard to win big pots with them because so many people are afraid of them and yet they are vulnerable to being beaten by drawing hands in multiway play. The beauty of having low suited connectors is that people are not as afraid of them as they are of the big hands. If somebody has AA and trips up with them, they are not acting afraid, they are betting aggressively. When you have a chance at a monster hand, that is the type of opponent you need in order to get a truly big pot and that is why you might hope somebody has AA. Apologies if I somehow bastardized what Doylee meant, but I think I landed in the general vicinity.