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 lowest-ranking regular five-card Poker hand when an ace is
The lowest-ranking regular five-card Texas Hold'em Poker hand when an ace is both high and low is comprised of six, four, three, two, ace in mixed suits. The above table is particularly helpful to players who play high-low variants of Texas Hold'em Poker. In the short run, each additional active player in the game increases the odds against you on any particular hand. But in the long run, since all players have to put an equal sum into the pot, thus increasing the size of the pot in direct ratio to the increased odds, it doesn't make much difference, as far as odds are concerned, if you are bucking one or seven players. To simplify matters, the figures in the following tables have been rounded out when necessary to the nearest 1/10 or whole number.
Note that your chances of making four of a kind are three times as
Note that your chances of making four of a kind are three times as great when drawing to a pair minus a kicker than when holding a kicker. In fact, you have a better chance of improving your hand when drawing three cards to a pair than when drawing two cards to a pair plus a kicker. The tables above give ample proof of that. However, good Online Hold'em Poker playing demands that you occasionally hold a kicker with a pair so as to keep your opponents in doubt as to your playing habits. The chances of making a full house by drawing one card to two pairs are about 11 to 1.