This section contains strategy articles for playing specific hands and certain types of hands in no limit Texas Hold'em.
Follow these hand charts and learn how to play your starting hands at Texas Holdem. The charts below will give you a great starting point on how to play your starting hands. For all of you beginners, we recommend consulting these charts will playing online. We provide 4 separate charts depending on where you are seated relative to the dealer. As a baseline we'd recommend raising three times the big blind with hand like like 22+/AT+/KJ+/89s-JQs/A2s-A5s. This is 15.5% of hands. If we have tight players on our left we can start to raise. The best starting Texas Holdem poker hands are called premium hands. While the definition of a premium hand varies from one poker expert to the next, a solid core of hands that are considered the best by everyone are AA, KK, QQ, AK, and JJ. Known affectionately as American Airlines, pocket rockets, or simply the bullets, a wired pair of aces is the top starting hand in all of Texas holdem. As you can see, bringing aces to battle against nine random hands gives you nearly a one third chance of winding up the winner. Each Texas holdem hand starts with the first two seats posting the small and big blinds, which are forced bets to create a pot. The small blind is equal to one half of the big blind, and blinds rotate one spot to the left with each new hand. Players are then dealt two face down cards a.k.a. Hole cards to form their starting hand.
Remember that these are simply rough guidelines for playing different starting hands in Texas Hold'em. There are an almost endless variety of situations that you can find yourself in with each of these hands, so they are far from being an all-round 'ultimate guide'.
Texas Hold'em hand strategy articles.
| Title | Level | Category | Utility |
|---|---|---|---|
| Playing Pocket Aces | Beginner | Hands | 5/10 |
| Playing Pocket Kings | Beginner | Hands | 5/10 |
| Small Pocket Pairs | Intermediate | Hands | 7/10 |
| Playing Ace King | Intermediate | Hands | 6/10 |
| Playing Pocket Queens | Intermediate | Hands | 5/10 |
| Rag Aces | Intermediate | Hands | 5/10 |
| Drawing Hands | Advanced | Hands | 7/10 |
| Drawing Hands w/ Aggression | Advanced | Hands | 6/10 |
If you're looking for a guide on how to play a hand of Texas Hold'em from start to finish, try the hand guide.
Hand strategy section highlights.
Important hand strategy articles.
None of the strategy guides for the specific hands above are going to prove to be essential to improving your game (hence the lower than average utility ratings), as playing solid Texas Hold'em is all about evaluating the situation and using your own logic to make the most profitable decision possible.
Playing good Texas Hold'em is not about waiting for certain hands and then playing according to a set of rules. A monkey can do that, and I'm fairly sure that I could beat a monkey at Poker.
But still, that's not to say that these hand guides can't be a little useful. The article on how to play small pocket pairs is one of the most informative articles in the section as it touches upon additional mathematical concepts such as pot odds and implied odds.
Other useful Hold'em hand strategy articles.
I like the drawing hands and playing drawing hands with aggression articles for the same reason why I like the small pocket pairs article - it teaches other important concepts about Texas Holdem that will be more valuable to you than rules and guidelines for specific hands.
Texas Holdem Hands Pdf
Anyway, that's enough of me lecturing you on why playing according to specific rules is filthy and horrible. Just enjoy these articles and try to avoid thinking about decisions from inside a box.
Go back to the awesome Texas Hold'em Strategy.
Best Hands In Texas Holdem
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