Best To Worst Hands In Texas Holdem
Today we are talking about poker. What do you know about this game? In general, poker is not specifically a game. This is a category of games that combines many subspecies. Each type of poker has its own unique rules, bets, winnings and victory conditions. Among all types of poker, one can highlight one of the most popular – Texas Hold’em poker. If you are new to poker, this is the game to start with. You will always find casinos, tournaments and active tables for this type of poker, as well as many guides.
First you need to understand the basic rules of Texas Hold’em. 2-10 players sit at the table. The dealer deals each player 2 starting cards face down – Texas Hold’em hands. This is where you decide whether to play these hands or fold. This moment is one of the most important in the whole game. After that, you place your bet and the dealer puts 3 cards up on the table. Bets are repeated and the table fills with cards until there are 5. At the end, the player with the highest combo takes the pot.
Best Texas Hold’em hands
Jan 13, 2021 Texas Holdem Starting Hands Infographic This Cheat Sheet covers every kind of starting hand and gives you easy-to-follow instructions on how to play them before and after the flop. The infographic also includes helpful stats about how likely it is for someone else to have a bigger pocket pair than you before the flop. What’s the Best Hold’em Hand? If you’re pre-flop the answer is easy: pocket aces. Outside of those. This chart will give you the rank of Texas Hold’em hands from best to worst. This can serve as an easy list of all hands sorted by strength rather than separated by biggest starting card. I am including all 13 pocket pairs and 78 unique non-paired starting hands for a total of 91 hands. Ever since the early days of Texas holdem poker, players have attempted to analyze and organize the 169 possible two card starting hands found in the game. One traditional way of doing so involves running thousands upon thousands of simulations in which a particular holdem hand is played out against nine random opponent hands.
There are combinations in poker, from the strongest to the weakest. At the end of the game, the player who was able to collect the strongest combo at the table takes the pot. Combo can be made using 5 cards on the table + 2 hand cards. Now do you understand how important hand cards are? First, you place your bet based on these cards. Secondly, they play a key role in your combo. Therefore, we have compiled a list of the best Texas Hold’em hands, so you know exactly which hand is worth a fold, and with which you have a big chance of a top combo.
Hand ranking from best to worst:
- Pocket Aces. The strongest Texas Hold’em hands and the strongest pair that gives you a huge advantage over any player preflop.
- Pocket Kings. TOP 2 pair by strength.
- Pocket Queens. At least two hands can be stronger than yours, but they are still very strong hands.
- Ace King Suited. Perfect setup for a royal flush.
- Pocket Jacks: A strong combo that can be raised, but not strong enough to be all-in in no-limit Hold’em.
You should raise any of these hands pre-flop because they are all incredibly strong and give you a big advantage.
Worst hands in Texas Hold’em
In the last section, you learned which hands are always worth playing. Now you should pay attention to those Texas Hold’em hands, which are always better to fold and not spend the blind on them. So, the ranking of the best hands to fold:
- Any hand with Two other than a pair of Twos or Two and Ace suited.
- Any hand with Three other than a pair of Threes or Three and Ace suited.
- Any hand with Four other than a pair of Fours or Four and Ace suited.
- Any hand with Five except a pair of Fives or Five and Ace suited.
- Any hand with Six other than a pair of Sixes or Six and Ace suited.
- Any hand with Seven other than a pair of Sevens, Seven and Ace suited and Seven and Eight suited.
- Any hand with Eight, except a pair of Eights, Eight and Ace suited, Seven and Eight suited, Eight and Nine suited, Eight and Ten Suited.
Worst Hand In Poker
All of these hands should always be folded. There is too much chance that your opponents will have a hand that is a priori stronger than yours. On the flop, you can only make a low pair.
These days, even the most casual of poker fans who might happen upon a WSOP broadcast during the summer knows that the best Texas Hold’em starting hand is pocket aces. With an additional 1,300+ potential starting hand combinations, however, the overwhelming majority of the hands you’ll be dealt will consist of inferior holdings. As such, it is best to know how to deal with other card combinations that might come your way.
Sometimes the cards you’re dealt will look appealing and you’ll want to play them. Think a couple face cards, perhaps. Maybe you’ve gotten a couple of connected cards or maybe they’re suited (BUT THEY WERE SUITED!). In most situations, you’ll find that pairs are at least somewhat playable but for all those other hole card combos you’ll get, just like Kenny Rogers’ famous song “The Gambler” advises, “you’ve got to know when to hold’em, and know when to fold ’em.”
The more easily you’re able to identify weak starting hand combos, the quicker you’ll be able to make the right decisions at the table. When to bet, raise, call… or throw your hand away. The easiest decision you’ll usually have is throwing away your hand when it’s quite literally one of the worst combinations possible.
So, without further ado, we present to you the worst Texas Hold’em starting hands.
Deuce-Seven
Holding a 2 and a 7 (off suit) as your starting hand is without a doubt the worst hand you can get dealt. At best, you’d realistically be hoping to catch a 2 or 7 among the community cards on the flop for a low pair, which still makes for a relatively weak hand to carry on with. In pretty much every scenario then, whether you’ve found yourself a seat at the live casino card games or at your friend’s Friday home poker table, folding is the way to go when dealt the dreaded Deuce-Seven.
Deuce-Eight
The same issues that arise with the previous card combination are present at this one. In fact, it’s only marginally better. Should you decide to go against conventional wisdom and choose to proceed with such holdings, even if you improve to a pair on the flop, you’ll almost always find yourself behind and needing additional help to improve versus your opponents. Save yourself the hassle – and the money! – and get rid of the Deuce-Eight as quickly as you can… yes, even if they’re suited.
Three-Seven and Three-Eight
At this point, you probably know the drill. Starting hand combinations of 3-7 and 3-8 are, indeed, better than the aforementioned couple of combinations. The only advantage these combinations have over the ones we’ve listed already is that there’s an outside chance you might hit an inside straight with precisely the right flop. That, however, is most certainly NOT a reason to hold on to these starting hands. If you’ve got any interest in protecting your poker bankroll, toss the cards into the muck.
Deuce, Three, or Four and a Nine
You pick up your hole cards and start to peel… the first card you see is a 9. Not great, but not horrible either. Then you lift up the second card ever so slightly to reveal… a 2, or a 3, or a 4. The disappointment you feel should be palpable. Even if you’re no math expert and don’t realize that the chances of you winning with a starting hand of that nature are very slim, that sinking feeling you got when discovering that second card ought to lead you to do the right thing, namely chuck the hand.
Conclusion
We’re pretty sure you’ve gotten the picture by now. It doesn’t take a card sharp to realize that while many of the hands you’ll be dealt aren’t too great to start out with, some of them are just pure rubbish and out to be discarded.
So there you have it, a rundown of some of the worst possible starting hand combinations you can possibly be dealt in Texas Hold’em. Hopefully, this is the only place you’ll ever have to see such trashy cards, and the dealers will always send premium hands your way.
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