Group 0: AA KK

Follow these hand charts and learn how to play your starting hands at Texas Holdem. The charts below will give you a great starting point on how to play your starting hands. For all of you beginners, we recommend consulting these charts will playing online. We provide 4 separate charts depending on where you are seated relative to the dealer. Denotes play depending on weakness/strength of table and players, late/button position, number of limpers and other factors. You can test out this Holdem starting hands chart at REAL MONEY TABLES, without making a deposit! What is the highest hand and hands order in poker? You can see the hands order below starting with the highest ending with the lowest:. Royal Flush: 10, Jack, Queen, King, Ace all in the same suit. Straight Flush: Five cards in a row, all in the same suit. Four of a Kind: The same card in each of the four suits. Full House: A. In poker you want to be wary about becoming too reliant on those pretty starting hand charts. They can be great for indicating which hands might be worth playing (and which should be thrown away. Knowing what beats what in poker or Texas Hold’em is an important early step in learning the game. To help you out, I have provided for you an attractive printable or downloadable “cheat sheet” for both 5 card hand rankings as well as top 24 pre-flop starting hands.

Group 1: QQ JJ AKs

Group 2: TT AK AQs AJs KQs

Group 3: AQ 99 88 77 ATs KJs

Group 4: AJ KQ QJs KTs JTs AT

Group 5: 66 55 44 33 22 KJ(?) QTs(?) A9s(?) A8s(?) QJ(?)

Group 6(?): KT QT JT A7s K9s Q9s T9s J9s A5s A6s A4s A3s A2s

Group 7(?): A9 K9 98s 87s

(?) Denotes play depending on weakness/strength of table and players, late/button position, number of limpers and other factors.

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The Sit N Go Starting Hands Guide That Explains The Poker Strategy Concepts Behind The Selections

Starting Hand selection is a key component of any winning poker strategy – discipline, combined with the ability to take advantage of profitable situations as they arise can ensure your online play has a solid foundation.

Sit N Go Starting hands selection has 3 major differences when compared to cash game poker – those who ignore these differences (intentionally or otherwise) these will rarely be winners in SNG Poker over the long term. This article will explain these differences and will then provide a starting hand guide which can be adapted to suit your individual needs and playing style.

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Poker Starting Hand Strength Chart Pdf

3 Critical Factors In SNG Starting Hand Selection

1. The Stages Of A Sit N Go Tournament:
   Sit And Go Tournaments start with 9 or 10 players and blinds which are a very small percentage of your stack. They end with blinds totaling 15% or more of stacks and just 2 players facing off heads-up. It should be clear that starting hand selection needs to adjust to account for many factors including position, number of opponents, stack sizes and the speed of blind increases (turbo or standard).
   
2. Multi-Tabling SNGs And Playing Against Multi-Tablers!
   If you are a SNG Grinder who is playing 8 or even more tables at once then your starting hand selection will be different from the profitable leisure player who enjoys just one game at a time. In order to multi-table effectively, some slightly profitable starting hands are often dropped to make decisions easier. If you are playing against several multi-tablers you may want to increase your own hand selection to take account of this.
   
3. The Bubble And Chip Equity Models
   At the bubble of a SNG tournament you can stop thinking in terms of which hands you wish to select based on their inherent ‘strength’. Instead winning player’s judge the range of SNG hands that opponent’s will call with and work backwards from there. Your SNG Starting hand selection can be very wide for all-in moves (depending on your opponents) and is usually very narrow for calling all-in moves (often premium hands only).
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4. Sit N Go Starting Hands Charts

Notes On The SNG Starting Hand Charts

- We have not included a ‘Call Raise’ column in these charts. This is for a good reason that there are very few scenarios where this is a profitable move. The few that exist are either due to very deep stacks (implied odds plays), situations in which a weak opponent opens and you have a monster hand (hoping to induce a squeeze from an aggressive opponent behind you in the middle stages) or ‘player specific’ situations which are out of scope for this beginners article.

Poker Starting Hand Strength Charts

- Blind Stealing will often depend on how likely your opponents are to ‘defend’ rather than the actual cards that you hold. Balance between maintaining an effective stack for stealing during the later stages, and accumulating chips will depend on a number of factors.

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Poker Starting Hand Strength Chart Printable

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