Strongest Starting Hands In Texas Holdem

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Best Starting Hands Crazy Pineapple Poker

All Texas Hold’em starting hands can be separated into two categories: “suited” and “offsuit”. Suited hands contain two cards of the same suit, like J♣9♣, A ♥ K ♥, K♠Q♠ and 9 ♦ 3 ♦. All other starting hands are in the offsuit category, like A♠8 ♦, 7♣5 ♥ and K ♥ 9 ♦. The above 3 sets of hands add up to form the common answer of 169 Texas Hold’em starting hands There are actually 1,326 combinations of starting hands if you count suits (e.g. A♣- A♦ and A♠- A♥ are different hands), but that is more of a “just for fun” number as suits have no value over each other in Texas Hold’em. As favourite as pocket Jacks for some players, pocket tens (aka “dimes”) are a strong starting hand in Texas Holdem poker. You don’t need another 10 on the flop and you can still win with tens. However, if there has been lots of action before you, it is sometimes better to fold pocket tens before the flop. Winning Texas holdem players do a good job of choosing the correct hands to enter the pot with. They resist the urge to enter the pot with marginal or poor hands, and always consider their position before making a decision to call, raise, or fold before the flop. The strength of your starting hand in Texas Hold'em can help you determine your chances of winning, even before the remaining cards are dealt. From a pair of aces — the strongest starting hand — to a 2 and a 7, knowing the strength of your starting hand is an important part of your success at the table.

What are the best starting hands in poker Crazy Pineapple Poker? This question is not as easy to answer as in Texas Hold’em, where AA, KK and QQ are the strongest hole cards.
In Texas Hold’em there are “only” 169 different starting hands from the 52 x 51 / 2 = 1326 possible combinations of hole cards. The starting hands can be simplified, because it does not matter whether you hold the ace of hearts and the king of hearts or “Anna Kournikova” in spades or clubs: these cards are all equivalent. Thus, there are 13 pairs in Texas Hold’em, 78 suited hole cards and 78 off-suited hole cards. These come in different frequencies in the ratio 6:4:12 (pairs:suited:offsuited). So it is more likely to get two aces than a certain suited combination such as AK. But back to Crazy Pineapple Poker.

Starting Hands in Crazy Pineapple Poker

In Crazy Pineapple Poker, there are a total of 10 times more (1755) possible starting hands. It is not as easy to create a chart with the top 20% of starting hands, as this would include over 350 hands.
But we found at least some raw data, which can be helpful for beginners in the Texas Hold’em variant Crazy Pineapple Poker. The data comes from the user Phat Mack from the 2 +2 poker forum. He has run 100,000 simulations to identify the best starting hands. He limited these to heads-up and he used the variant Lazy Pineapple Poker (where in contrast to Crazy Pineapple no hole card must be mucked after the flop). This reduces and simplifies the calculations considerably. Overall, the results can be accurately transferred to the game of Crazy Pineapple Poker. The results can also be transferred to shorthanded and even at full ring tables, however you should keep in mind that similar to Texas Hold’em suited connectors will gain in strength.
The top 50 starting hands in Crazy Pineapple Poker are:

The top 51 to 250 hands, which approximately covers the top 15% of the best starting hands in Crazy Pineapple, can be downloaded here together with the above table as a PDF file.
The strongest starting hands in Crazy Pineapple Poker are thus two aces combined with a high card in the same color of one of the aces. Some poker players might wonder why ace-ace-ten and ace-ace-five are the two strongest starting hands with a heads-up equity (probability of winning) of 75 percent. The explanation is simple: One way to beat two aces is holding a straight. A straight contains imperatively a ten or a five. If you now have two aces with a ten or five, then you are “blocking” one card that an oppenent needs to make a straight. Therefore, the equity of these two hands is slighlty higher than the expected favorite Ace-Ace-King.

Best starting hands Crazy Pineapple Poker

Simplyfied, the following are the best groups of starting hands in Crazy Pineapple:

1. Ace-Ace and a suited high card
2. Ace-Ace and a high card offsuited
3. King-King and a suited high card
4. King-King and a high card offsuited
5. Queen-Queen and a suited high card
6. Queen-Queen and a high card offsuited
7. Jack-Jack, and a high card suited
8. Jack-Jack, and a high card offsuited
9. Ten-Ten and a high card that is either higher or suited
10. Nine-Nine and a high card that is either higher or suited
11. Eight-eight and one high card that is higher and suited
12. An ace and two high card, which are reasonably high, and one of them is the color of the Asses

Since Crazy Pineapple Poker is a lesser-known plays and variant as Texas Hold’em, the game level is not very high. Simple strategies and the limitation on good starting hands (though the use of starting hands of only the above table would be too tight) will allow you to make good profits in Crazy Pineapple Poker.

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Starting Hand Selection:Chen Formula : Sklansky Starting Hand Groups

The Sklansky & Malmuth starting hands table.

This table comes from the book Hold 'em Poker for Advanced Players by David Sklansky and Mason Malmuth.

This is a strategy book for limit Hold'em, but the starting hand groups do have some practical use in no limit Hold'em.

What is the Sklansky and Malmuth starting hands table?

The table is a general ranking of hands in Texas Hold'em.

The Sklansky and Malmuth starting hands table groups together certain hands in Texas Hold'em based on their strength. Starting with the strongest set of hands that you can be dealt in group 1, the hands get progressively weaker working down the table until the virtually unplayable hands in group 9.

The rough idea is that a hand in one group has roughly the same value and can be played the same way preflop as any other hand in that group.

How to use the starting hands table.

In their book, Sklansky and Malmuth provide some in-depth guidelines for starting hand strategy in limit Texas Hold'em using this table. Unfortunately, I'm not going to work out any guidelines for you for the NL Hold'em game using this table because:

1. It would be quite a tricky job.
2. It would be difficult to remember and implement.
3. Like any starting hand strategy, it would have its flaws.
4. You should avoid using strict guidelines and set rules as much as possible during play.

So really there is not a lot to take away from this table from a purely strategic perspective. Nonetheless it's interesting to see how specific starting hands compare to one another based on their preflop value.

If you're really after a starting hand strategy guideline, try the Chen Formula.

Sklansky and Malmuth hand rankings evaluation.

Strongest Starting Hands In Texas Holdemem

Although it's a very popular hand group rankings table, it's not going to do you too much good to learn the whole thing off by heart. In my opinion, the real value of this table is being able to see how different starting hands can be grouped together and ranked based on their value before the flop.

For other useful charts and tables, see the odds charts page from the Texas Hold'em tools section.

Go back to the awesome Texas Hold'em Strategy.

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