Poker: Best and Worst Starting Hands

Hey internet, it’s your old friend Dominic here with the All American Casino Guide. Today we’re going to talk about Texas Hold ‘Em and how to recognize and evaluate the strength of your starting hand.

In this video, I'm going to cover several points about Texas Hold ‘Em including:
1- The Importance of your Starting Hand
2 - Good Hands
3 - Bad Starting Hands
4 - Winning Probability of Starting Hands

Texas Hold ‘Em is a very popular game, which is easy to learn but difficult to master. Having a strong understanding of each of these areas will greatly influence your poker game.

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0:00 Introduction
1:03 Don't play too many hands
2:06 Blinds should influence your decision
3:55 BEST POKER HANDS
4:05 BEST HAND: High Pocket Pairs
5:48 2nd BEST HAND: High suited connectors
6:56 3rd BEST HAND: High offsuit connectors
7:53 MID-LEVEL POKER HANDS
8:24 MID-LEVEL HANDS: - middle pairs - middle suited or offsuit connectors
11:10 WORST POKER HANDS
11:38 WORST HANDS: - low pairs - low off-suit, off-sequence cards
13:32 don't play with bad kicker cards
14:13 fancy-named hands aren't always good

[zienwolf]

I've just started playing weekly tournaments at my local bar. I'm doing decent. I've taken second place twice but these videos are really helping me smooth out the rough spots. Thanks.

[MrDogHomie]

love this style of series for my level of poker... clear and slow. love it.

[kristschubilske]

Clicked for the mustache. Subscribed... also for the mustache.

[patrickgambill]

This is generally true, but low pocket pairs are handle with care hands. Heads up, low pocket pairs are a draw against high suited connectors. If you are playing pocket 2s on the button, you still have a 12.5% chance of flopping a set (and as long as you win a little over 8x the bb with the set, and immediately fold without a set), you are profitable. You should not play low pocket pairs out of position though, and you should fold post flop if you miss the set on the flop and there is a lot of players in the hand or if there are a lot of overs on the flop.

[randykicklighter]

appreciate the advice. I have never played poker, so starting with the basics. This video was very helpful.

[Filosofikuningas]

Thank you for the video. Do you mind explaining why the chart shown at 15m isn't symmetrical? I.e. a 2-3 stands at either 35% or 39%, or a K-Q at 62% or 64%. Both differences strike me as big, as one plays thousands and thousands of hands over time.

[drzflyest]

So i gotta say i watched this video and went and played a mobile video poker game, folded almost every hand except some high mid and good hands and left the table with about 4-5x what i started with. Thanks for your videos ill be browsing through your catalog. You've earned my subscription

[Paragonx]

11:53 I played an off suite 2 & 7 one time for fun. Caught a full house on the flop. Never stop dreaming.

[jonathanwhitaker]

New and just tryna learn card games cause I was never taught. Love the patience in teaching in this. Thankyou

[killahcrax]

Yesterday, I was playing four online tables. I hit pocket Aces on two tables at the same time. Brilliant. Got beat on both tables. One with a straight and one with a three of a kind.

[doggfriendly]

Don't play the gay waiter even if he's suited

[KaiserSoze-vxvo]

I've held on to a pair of twos. On the flop I got another two I started betting and people thought I was bluffing. And I got a fourth two on the river, blew everybody's mind when I showed quads.

[guacamolephil]

Pocket pairs below TT are best played passively to hit a set unless your shortstack then it can make a good shove hand

[Bradex.]

Another thing to note, playing small pocket pairs like 22-66 give you implied odds meaning that you can hit trips and have a very disguised hand. Definately worth playing if the price is cheap enough. You will often get called often by high pocket pairs, or any two pair making you the favourite.

Suited rag aces (A9s-) can hit top flush. They can also become bluffs/semi bluffs you can use so people call your bets when you do have good hands.

Do not overvalue the dummy end of the straight. If you bet big and get raised often they'll have a better straight. Example, you have 98 and flop comes T J Q. They can easily have AK or K9 having you beat.

Do not overvalue strong starting hands after a bad flop. For example, if you start with aces and the turn gives 4 of a suit with connected cards you do not have, you should check fold

[danielmoran]

I'm playing ace 2 everytime like you can't stop me

[WhatsUpWithSheila]

Thank you for keeping this simple and old school..

It appears the millennial poker players who have YouTube channels... over think stuff.

This I can handle, add it with a little bit of common sense I should be just fine👍

[unrealk]

Thank you man !!! You are the best !!! Straight after watching this video my game has improved significantly !!!!

[thewrongaccount]

Hey Dominic, thank you for the great video. I've a question about how to read it. I've noticed that if you go down then across the percentages are different for the same cards in a different order. As an example a down to Jack then across to 9 gets 57% however if you go across to Jack then down to 9 I get 55%. How should I be reading this chart?

[adamreed]

I love your terminology! The cowboys, the ladies, or as my dad would put it, mop squeezers, lol and the fishhooks are terms I've known for as long as I can remember lol having grown up in a poker playing family, I know about 30 different poker games but I love Texas hold'em most

[blexbox]

Video is awesome was playing too loose with my online poker and now have vastly improved due to learning the quality of hands and when to lay down even when blind committed. Any vids or tips on how to become more aware of possible opponent hands?