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Best Starting Hands in Texas HoldEm - Coming out on top


Very Strong Starting Hands

- Pair of Aces - Pocket Rockets
- Pair of Kings
- Ace-King on suit
- Pair of Queens
- Pair of Jacks

Strong Starting Hands

- Ace-Queen , Ace-Jack, Ace-10 On suit
- Ace-King off suit
- Pair of tens
- Ace-10, King-Jack, Queen-Jack, Jack-10 on suit
- Ace-Queen, Ace-Jack off-suit
- Pair of nines
- King-Queen off suit and on suit
- King-10, Queen-10 on suit

Medium Strength Starting Hands

- Pair of eights
- Jack-9, 10-9 on suit
- Pair of sevens
- 9-8, 8-7 on suit
- An ace with any other on suit card
- King-Jack, Queen-Jack, Jack-10 off-suit

Other Hands Possibly Worth Playing….

- Any low pair
- Connected cards in the same suit, for example 8-7, 6-5, 5-4 etc
- Ace-10, King-10, Queen-10 off suit
- King-9, Jack-8 on suit

Basically do not start with anything else unless you really feel you want to!, you can still get away with it at times but be cautious. Also remember that luck plays a part - you may be sat there with a pair of aces and then watch them flop three of a kind to beat your pair - bad beats are part of the game and you have to deal with it!

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