Starting Hands in Poker Part 1 – Standard Hand Values

Starting poker hands can be divided in three distinct categories - good hands, bad hands and something in between. When you are dealt a good hand in poker, you are happy to play it, when you are dealt a bad one - you just fold. Easy. The difficulties begin with hands that are somewhere in between. I will talk about them later.

Good starting hands in poker - AA, KK, QQ, AK, AQ, (AJ), (KQ), (KJ), (JJ)

I put some hands in brackets because they are good, but not that good. You have to know how to play them properly to reach a profit.

Bad hands - most of the hands you get dilet in poker, beginning with 72. Poker hands that are somewhere in between - all the small pocket pairs all the way up to 1010, all drawing hands like fitted connectors which allow you to win big if you hit and hands like A10 A9 A8, which even if you hit an ace on flop, have no real win value.

Winning at poker consists of playing good hands and folding bad ones. With the hands that are somewhere in between it's more difficult. Here the ability of knowing your opponents becomes the most important aspect of play. For example if you are playing against a good player, you usually need good hands to compete. This is a very standard distribution of poker hands but very important to know. In the next part I will discuss an impact the position you are in on values ​​of poker hands.

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