Starting Hand Selection in Hold ‘em

The bigger the gap, the less chance you have of hitting a straight. For example, if you hold 73, then you’d need a flop of 456 for the straight. Jacks are great starting hands, and with either of these, you can usually be confident you have the best starting hand. Of course they are dominated by Aces and Kings, but they’re a favourite against all other starting hands. While Queens and Jacks will occasionally run into a player holding either Aces or Kings, it doesn’t happen too often. Some suited cards are worth playing and it’s certainly better to start with suited cards than unsuited cards. Certain starting hands are always going to be under threat against a table of nine or ten players, but the value of these same hands increases when there are fewer players. Our starting hand charts are a guide, not a set of intractable rules. Loose, promiscuous play will get you into trouble and is the downfall of many players. Furthermore, the biggest mistakes made by any poker player is to go into expensive showdowns with second best hands and its less often you will make this mistake if you started out with premium hands in the first place. Then each of those branches split, and then those split and so on and so forth. Each time a branch splits it represents a decision you've made and leads toward one side of the tree or the other. The left branches lead to profit; the right to loss. Now some of the branches on the right lead back to the left, and some of the left lead back to the right. You may make a wrong decision later in the hand that costs you money, but if you start with a strong enough hand, it is difficult (though not impossible) to turn it into a long term loser. If you are less skilled in poker, it is advisable to stick to good starting hands and to try to avoid playing anything but premium hands from early or middle position. Of course you don't want to be that transparent so you need to mix it up a little. If you only every play one of the top 6 hands, you will never make any money (as players will recognize your range).This is another key concept. As we know, many things consistently change. It also depends whether you are playing a cash game or tournament. Blinds and antes don't increase in a cash game whereas they continue to get larger in tournaments. As a tournament progresses, waiting or premium hands will likely not be enough to make a good cash. You will need to expand your range to try to pick up the blinds. You will also need to be a little flexible on the hands you get involved with to control your table image. To do this you will need again to change the range of hands you get involved with. The trick is to only play at that gear until players are just about figuring you out, then you change again. You will know yourself how experienced you are. If just starting out, keep it simple. Count how many you would have won. It is likely only a couple at best. This just emphasizes the fact that you will miss on most flops so playing every hand seems a suicidal approach. You should be able to spot the players are the table soon enough that like t play most hands. If you think your beat, fold. Even two aces, which is the best possible starting hand is very easily beaten when the board is dealt. The benefit of playing premium hands is that, often, you don't have to improve to win. If you were a racing car driver, you would choose a Ferrari over a Subaru, why, as it would give you the best chance of winning. You may be close to the money in a tournament or might be faced with a multi-way pot (which reduces your chances of winning considerably). To pout it into perspective, AA up against one other player, who lets say has KQ, is an 86% favorite. Up against 3 other players who hold KQ, 99 and 54 and your aces will hold up only 55% of the time. If you are playing a cash game, you might want to take the risk as you can bring more to the table. However, we still have to be prepared to fold as having position does not guarantee that we will win the hand, it simply gives an advantage. However, if you are new to the game it is strongly advised that you stick to the big cards so that you give yourself the best opportunity to win money from poker. This occurs in the vicinity of hand number 85.  So for suited connectors, the average strength hand is 74s.  Suited disconnectors, it's J4s, and unsuited connectors it's Q9o.  All pairs are well above the median. If your hand is suited, match your hole cards in the upper right half of the table. Just take some guidelines, practice practice practice, and you'll start to know when you can afford to play the "reds" and how hard you should be pushing those yellows.I have something that I call the Q-T-8 standard. Once you know that, relying on those charts is extremely dangerous and unprofitable. You can't just wait for premium hands to show up (because they rarely do), you have to get your chips in the middle and be more aggressive with a wider range. On top of all this, poker is not so much about your hand, it's more about your opponent(s) hand(s) and his/their behaviour (but this is a completely new topic, outside of the scope of this answer).I think the point about tournaments is important. In both cash games and tournaments you starting hand selection and betting patterns should relate to the stack sizes, blind/ante structure, number of players at the table and your position at the table. More advanced strategies also adjust for the way the other players are playing, and their table positions relative to yours. I searched for Chen formula, this strategy advice to openlimp in early position with some hands and dont care, if these hands play well postflop or not. That is not good strategy, especially at lower limits. You want to protect your stronger hands and don't want multiway pots. You also want to extract value from your stronger hands preflop from your loose opponents. Big pairs, small and medium pairs, two high cards, suited connectors, and big-little suited.

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This occurs in the vicinity of hand number 85.  So for suited connectors, the average strength hand is 74s.  Suited disconnectors, it's J4s, and unsuited connectors it's Q9o.  All pairs are well above the median.