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The Texas Hold’em starting hands consists of two hole cards otherwise referred to as the cards facing down. These belong solely to the player and remain hidden from other players. Then 5 community cards are dealt into play. Betting begins before any of the community cards are exposed, and continues throughout the hand. The player’s “playing hand”, which will be compared against that of each competing player, is the best 5-card poker hand available from his two hole cards and the five community cards.

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There are 1,326 distinct possible combinations of two hole cards from a standard 52-card deck. Many of these hands have the same value before the flop, since suits does not have a relative value in poker. Stronger starting hands are identified by a lower number. Hands without a number are the weakest starting hands. As a general rule, books on Texas Hold’em present hand strengths on the assumption of a nine or ten person table.

It is common for hole cards to be given nicknames in poker communities. While most combinations have a nickname, stronger handed nicknames are generally more recognized and the most notable is probably the “Big Slick”, where the Ace and King of the same suit. Hands can be named according to the strength of the hand. Pocket rockets are the name used representing the strength of paired aces.

Probably by now you already know that the best hands could be a pair of aces. The next in line is the pair of kings called cowboys. The pair of queens is known as the ladies, rounds out the top three best starting hands.

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Poker is a family of card games, all following a similar pattern of play and generally using the same hand ranking hierarchy. Texas hold ‘em is a kind of poker in which each player is dealt five cards, two of which are hole cards and three of which are community cards. Players combine any number of their hole cards with the community cards in order to make the highest five-card hand according to standard hand rankings. Evaluating hands in Texas Holdem occurs at the end of the game in order to see which player has the highest or lowest hand.

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Here is the rank of hands from highest to lowest with no wild cards: royal flush, straight flush, four of a kind, full house, flush, straight, two pair, pair, and single high card.

The royal flush is the highest hand possible, and it occurs when you have five high cards of the same suit in sequence with Ace as the highest card. The straight flush occurs when you simply have five cards of the same suit in sequence. The four of a kind is when you have four of a certain kind of card plus a single card. The full house is when you have three of a kind with a pair.

The flush occurs when you have any five cards of the same suit. The straight occurs when you have any five cards in sequence and unsuited. The three of a kind is when you have three of a certain kind of card plus two single cards. The two pair is when you have two pairs of cards plus a single card. The pair is when you have a pair of cards plus three single cards. The single high card occurs when you have five cards of differing suits, with the Queen as the highest card.

By evaluating hands in Texas Holdem, the winner is determined.

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The Texas Hold’em starting hands consists of two hole cards otherwise referred to as the cards facing down. These belong solely to the player and remain hidden from other players. Then 5 community cards are dealt into play. Betting begins before any of the community cards are exposed, and continues throughout the hand. The player’s “playing hand”, which will be compared against that of each competing player, is the best 5-card poker hand available from his two hole cards and the five community cards.

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There are 1,326 distinct possible combinations of two hole cards from a standard 52-card deck. Many of these hands have the same value before the flop, since suits does not have a relative value in poker. Stronger starting hands are identified by a lower number. Hands without a number are the weakest starting hands. As a general rule, books on Texas Hold’em present hand strengths on the assumption of a nine or ten person table.

It is common for hole cards to be given nicknames in poker communities. While most combinations have a nickname, stronger handed nicknames are generally more recognized and the most notable is probably the “Big Slick”, where the Ace and King of the same suit. Hands can be named according to the strength of the hand. Pocket rockets are the name used representing the strength of paired aces.

Probably by now you already know that the best hands could be a pair of aces. The next in line is the pair of kings called cowboys. The pair of queens is known as the ladies, rounds out the top three best starting hands.

Never play hands like J2 or K4 – hands that do not go together at all. Playing cards like this are playing on pure luck and it is a waste of chips and money. Playing smart and taking into consideration different plays at different times will help your skill level enormously.

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