Poker Lesson 2: Starting Hand Selection

How we all know or we can see after open an Texas Holdem table, we are dealt with two cards from the. After the preflop bet, three cards are shown, and after three rounds of bets- – flop, turn and river – following. At the end of one poker hand, there are five cards face down on the table, and two on the player remain only.

We keep only two of the five cards in playing. This make us think that two cards are not important, after all, if there are seven cards in playing in total, why the hand starting should be important? Any hand can be a win hand, right?

Of Course! Any hand at the beginning can win. We can get the worse cards (72 off-suit) and use against the better hand (a pair of Aces) – and 72o will be the best hand in the final (river)in a fifth of the times. So why not playing all the hand since the?

After all, it is more fun to play, raise and call and see the flops than only fold. Right?

It is sure is more fun, but if you want to win, you statement basic is to have a solid hand since the beginning. Any hand can win, but most of the hand will lose most of the time, costing a lot of money in a long term- nobody wants!

So, what is a solid hand to start? What are the hands to play, and what hand are not playable?

As an beginner, we recommend you to play the following hands:

1) High Pairs of pocket; A-A, K-K, Q-Q, J-J. The higher pair can often win without any improvement, doing a premium hand and superior to all the other hand. Do not need so much logical to know that a pair of Az it is best of all hands to start with, but all the pairs are possible to be, and should be played aggressively before of preflop.

2) Big cards. Meaning hands like AQ or AK. They are nearly premium hands. If are off-suited, they are still good to be played. Like a hand AK, often will be bet at least the higher pair with the higher flop, which will be the winner hand in a number of times. Due the correct cirscuntences, we can play the hand AJ. So, a hand like KJ are not well seeing, but are hands that often make the best hand, it hands that a beginner should avoid.

3) Middle Pairs pocket. Hands like 7-7, 8-8, 9-9, 10-10. These are good hand to start with, but we play them to make a pair and at the end they are not the best hand for the (river). So when we get a triple we can make a lot of money against someone with two pairs or one pair only.

4) Conectated Suits. Two suites and conectated cards, like JT, 98, of the same suite. Be aware low suite drop off the value, the hand like 32 it is, even if it is a suite, a hand very often should de fold when be on the eminency of raise. These are hands that we play basically to improve our , or to have a better combination on flop.

5) Lowers Pairs pocket, go 22-66. These are the hands the start that we can play if the pot is no raised , or if we are in first position, but should be very careful. Otherwise that the flop gives us the three types, the standard of play it is to fold on flop.

On the next lesson, I will give more details about the game preflop; when, why and how this hand should be started ? Meanwhile, follow this instructions and fold the others hands, and you should be in the way to become a winner player!