Poker Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
The first thing to note in the above table
The first thing to note in the above table is that there are 672 possible five of a kinds and only 484 royal flushes. Nonetheless, in this Draw Texas Hold'em Poker variation, five of a kind outranks a royal flush. The next thing to notice is that a two-pair hand is rare compared with three of a kind. But most important, note that four of a kind will appear about 2 1/2 times more often than full houses and flushes. And last but not least, the above table reveals that two out of three players seated at the card table can be expected to have been dealt a pair or better.
The average winning hand in this game is three aces,
The average winning hand in this game is three aces, but not three natural aces. The fewer wild deuces you hold, the higher ranking hands you can expect your opponents to hold. Two pairs seldom win a pot, and should you hold them before the draw, the lower pair should be discarded. Two wild deuces always justify a play and it is better to draw two cards to two deuces and an ace or king than to draw three cards to the two deuces. A natural three of a kind, except aces, is a weak opening hand. A four-card straight or a four-card flush including a deuce should be played.