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The Best Poker Hands

If you are lucky to be dealt one of these initial hands, you are definitely having an excellent beginning:

Pair of Aces: as known as American Airlines or pocket rockets, it is the best possible Texas Holdem starting hand.

Pair of Kings: not as good as a pair of Aces but still an excellent way to open a game of Texas Holdem.

Pair of Queens: if you want to look at the bright side, you will be beaten only by Kings and Aces.

Ace and King: if they are of the same suit, your condition is even better, since you can form the nut flush at ease.

Pair of Jacks: unless the flop shows either a Queen, King or an Ace, you have decent chances of winning with this promising starting hand.

Ace and Queen: the same as Ace and King, a suited hand would increase your chances of stepping out as a winner.

King and Queen: unless the community cards contain an Ace, you are in a good shape with this starting hand and even better if it is suited

Ace and Jack: even if appears unsuited, this starting hand is still worth holding.

King and Jack: still one of the best Texas Holdem starting hands, but be careful with it, especially when unsuited.

Ace and Ten: the Ace upgrades it to a pretty good hand, although requires a cautious play since it can be beaten by any of the starting hands mentioned above.
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Bestbett wrote: The Best Poker Hands

If you are lucky to be dealt one of these initial hands, you are definitely having an excellent beginning:

Pair of Aces: as known as American Airlines or pocket rockets, it is the best possible Texas Holdem starting hand.

Pair of Kings: not as good as a pair of Aces but still an excellent way to open a game of Texas Holdem.

Pair of Queens: if you want to look at the bright side, you will be beaten only by Kings and Aces.

Ace and King: if they are of the same suit, your condition is even better, since you can form the nut flush at ease.

Pair of Jacks: unless the flop shows either a Queen, King or an Ace, you have decent chances of winning with this promising starting hand.

Ace and Queen: the same as Ace and King, a suited hand would increase your chances of stepping out as a winner.

King and Queen: unless the community cards contain an Ace, you are in a good shape with this starting hand and even better if it is suited

Ace and Jack: even if appears unsuited, this starting hand is still worth holding.

King and Jack: still one of the best Texas Holdem starting hands, but be careful with it, especially when unsuited.

Ace and Ten: the Ace upgrades it to a pretty good hand, although requires a cautious play since it can be beaten by any of the starting hands mentioned above.
All those look good but my best hand is always the one that wins!
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Bestbett wrote: The Best Poker Hands

If you are lucky to be dealt one of these initial hands, you are definitely having an excellent beginning:

Pair of Aces: as known as American Airlines or pocket rockets, it is the best possible Texas Holdem starting hand.

Pair of Kings: not as good as a pair of Aces but still an excellent way to open a game of Texas Holdem.

Pair of Queens: if you want to look at the bright side, you will be beaten only by Kings and Aces.

Ace and King: if they are of the same suit, your condition is even better, since you can form the nut flush at ease.

Pair of Jacks: unless the flop shows either a Queen, King or an Ace, you have decent chances of winning with this promising starting hand.

Ace and Queen: the same as Ace and King, a suited hand would increase your chances of stepping out as a winner.

King and Queen: unless the community cards contain an Ace, you are in a good shape with this starting hand and even better if it is suited

Ace and Jack: even if appears unsuited, this starting hand is still worth holding.

King and Jack: still one of the best Texas Holdem starting hands, but be careful with it, especially when unsuited.

Ace and Ten: the Ace upgrades it to a pretty good hand, although requires a cautious play since it can be beaten by any of the starting hands mentioned above.
The true measure of a good poker player is ........his ability to throw these hands away; fold them, when the sistuation warrants it. So many times we overplay these cards. And in some cases...half of these hands should be folded preflop depending on your position, the action in front of you, your chip stack and touney position. It would be unwise to play your AA if two players are all in in front of you, your short stacked and only three to go untill the bubble in a satellite tourney, borderline foolish! But 90% will call and 60% of them will see the rail. Poker is a game of brains....not cards.
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tallseas wrote: The true measure of a good poker player is ........his ability to throw these hands away; fold them, when the sistuation warrants it. So many times we overplay these cards. And in some cases...half of these hands should be folded preflop depending on your position, the action in front of you, your chip stack and touney position. It would be unwise to play your AA if two players are all in in front of you, your short stacked and only three to go untill the bubble in a satellite tourney, borderline foolish! But 90% will call and 60% of them will see the rail. Poker is a game of brains....not cards.
The true measure of a good poker player is ........his ability to throw these hands away; fold them, when the sistuation warrants it. So many times we overplay these cards. And in some cases...half of these hands should be folded preflop depending on your position, the action in front of you, your chip stack and touney position. It would be unwise to play your AA if two players are all in in front of you, your short stacked and only three to go untill the bubble in a satellite tourney, borderline foolish! But 90% will call and 60% of them will see the rail. Poker is a game of brains....not cards.

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I hate pocket J'acks. :mad:
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tallseas wrote: The true measure of a good poker player is ........his ability to throw these hands away; fold them, when the sistuation warrants it. So many times we overplay these cards. And in some cases...half of these hands should be folded preflop depending on your position, the action in front of you, your chip stack and touney position. It would be unwise to play your AA if two players are all in in front of you, your short stacked and only three to go untill the bubble in a satellite tourney, borderline foolish! But 90% will call and 60% of them will see the rail. Poker is a game of brains....not cards.
The true measure of a good poker player is ........his ability to throw these hands away; fold them, when the sistuation warrants it. So many times we overplay these cards. And in some cases...half of these hands should be folded preflop depending on your position, the action in front of you, your chip stack and touney position. It would be unwise to play your AA if two players are all in in front of you, your short stacked and only three to go untill the bubble in a satellite tourney, borderline foolish! But 90% will call and 60% of them will see the rail. Poker is a game of brains....not cards.

Yeah I remember the first time I folded KK pf. LOL. I was as shocked as anyone lol. but I made a good cash doing it. hope to make it back there.
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orodriguez wrote: The true measure of a good poker player is ........his ability to throw these hands away; fold them, when the sistuation warrants it. So many times we overplay these cards. And in some cases...half of these hands should be folded preflop depending on your position, the action in front of you, your chip stack and touney position. It would be unwise to play your AA if two players are all in in front of you, your short stacked and only three to go untill the bubble in a satellite tourney, borderline foolish! But 90% will call and 60% of them will see the rail. Poker is a game of brains....not cards.

Yeah I remember the first time I folded KK pf. LOL. I was as shocked as anyone lol. but I made a good cash doing it. hope to make it back there.
Pair of aces in the pocket is the best hand to have. But I have found that it may make you feel that you have a great hand until the remainder of the cards come out. I don't know about everyone else but there are times I bet heavy when I have it and then end up losing.
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rcbstuff wrote: Pair of aces in the pocket is the best hand to have. But I have found that it may make you feel that you have a great hand until the remainder of the cards come out. I don't know about everyone else but there are times I bet heavy when I have it and then end up losing.
Standard Starting Hands

A Flop combined with your hole cards is 5/7 of your hand and makes your hand 71 percent complete.


Some Considerations when Determining Starting Hands.

1. Chip Stack
2. Position
3. Players
4. Cards

complications continue ......
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Bestbett wrote: The Best Poker Hands

If you are lucky to be dealt one of these initial hands, you are definitely having an excellent beginning:

Pair of Aces: as known as American Airlines or pocket rockets, it is the best possible Texas Holdem starting hand.

Pair of Kings: not as good as a pair of Aces but still an excellent way to open a game of Texas Holdem.

Pair of Queens: if you want to look at the bright side, you will be beaten only by Kings and Aces.

Ace and King: if they are of the same suit, your condition is even better, since you can form the nut flush at ease.

Pair of Jacks: unless the flop shows either a Queen, King or an Ace, you have decent chances of winning with this promising starting hand.

Ace and Queen: the same as Ace and King, a suited hand would increase your chances of stepping out as a winner.

King and Queen: unless the community cards contain an Ace, you are in a good shape with this starting hand and even better if it is suited

Ace and Jack: even if appears unsuited, this starting hand is still worth holding.

King and Jack: still one of the best Texas Holdem starting hands, but be careful with it, especially when unsuited.

Ace and Ten: the Ace upgrades it to a pretty good hand, although requires a cautious play since it can be beaten by any of the starting hands mentioned above.
Yes u are right but on online poker bad beats can easely happen.. to be fair i allways go allin when i have pocket aces but i allways have a feeling that i will lose 😄 if we are talking about pocket kings my "luck" tell me that the first hand on the flop will be an ace
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darkseed wrote: Yes u are right but on online poker bad beats can easely happen.. to be fair i allways go allin when i have pocket aces but i allways have a feeling that i will lose 😄 if we are talking about pocket kings my "luck" tell me that the first hand on the flop will be an ace
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If you are going to reproduce it here (and I have to say this is not groundbreaking stuff!) then I think you should ask permission of the author and credit them.

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