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Let's speak about poker starting hands and how to examine them.

If you are a poker newbie, you have actually pertained to the best location.
My name is Rick, and I was a poker novice myself not too long earlier. So, like everybody else I started doing some online research into Texas Hold 'em poker technique. However I discovered the existing sources to be overly made complex – so I chose to make my own, easy to comprehend poker novices guide.
This is episode 3 of a series that will take your poker skills from excellent to excellent – in under an hour.

Last video was everything about the various hands of poker and how they rank versus each other. In this video we'll dig deeper into starting hands.
What cards to act on, and what to get rid of?
We will discover.

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POKER COURSE.
This series will teach you.
1) Poker Guidelines.
2) Hand Ranking.
3) Beginning Hands.
4) Position.
5) Bluffing.
6) Betting.

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Alright, so, your starting hand is the two cards you're handled the start of every round.
There are 2 basic classes of beginning hands.
Paried, like 2 aces – and non paired, like a 7 and a king.

1. PAIRED BEGINNING HANDS.
2 aces is of course the strongest beginning hand in the video game.
A set of kings is the 2nd finest paired starting hand, and so on. All the way down to a pair of two's.

Pocket aces, kings and queens are all very strong beginning hands, often described as "Beast Hands".

A set of jacks, 10s, 9s or eights are considered medium starting sets. Still a fantastic starting point, but not as safe as higher pairs.

Sets of 7 to 2 are considered weak pairs. They aren't awful hands, but frequently lose at a showdown.

2. NON PAIRED STARTING HANDS.
Now, non paired hands are a bit more tricky to examine.
When evaluating non paired starting hands we normally search for 3 things.

The most important factor is 'HIGH CARD WORTH'. The higher cards, the better.
Two high cards are excellent, as you may strike a pair from the table and have your other card be a strong kicker.
A beginning hand with just one high card is much less important. Your chance of striking a high set from the table is halved and even if you did, your kicker is weak and can get beaten by someone who has the very same pair but a much better kicker.

After High card worth, we search for 'SUITEDNESS'. Cards are suited when they are of the exact same fit – like heats. If cards are of 2 different suits, like hearts and spades, it's cancelled fit.
A fit starting hand is a lot better than an off match. This is because your possibilities of hitting a flush (which is 5 cards of the exact same match) is a lot higher because you already have 2 of the 5 cards.

The 3rd thing we search for in a beginning hand is 'CONNECTEDNESS'. This describes the rank of the cards in your starting hand, and how far apart they are. Cards that are within 5 ranks of each other provides you a better chance of striking a straight in combination with the community cards on the table. Remember, a straight includes 5 cards, in sequential order.
A starting hand of cards that are close to each other in rank leave more possibilities for straights utilizing your starting hand, than two cards with, say, a 2 cards space. This is since a wider series of community cards would have the ability to supply a straight.
So the better in rank your 2 cards are, the much better.

So, there you have it. When examining a starting hand in poker we first search for a set, then 'High Card Worth', then 'Suitedness' and last but not least, 'Connectedness'.
The worst hands to play are low, inapplicable, off match cards.
With 7 2 off match being the worst hand possible.

Now, something to still bear in mind is that, in poker, every hand can be a winner, and in some cases players will play a bad beginning hand strongly in an effort to trick opponents into believing they have an excellent hand.
This is called 'bluffing' – an artform we will look into later in this series.

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NEXT VIDEO.
Now remember – This is a series and so in the next video we're going to talk 'Position'.
What is position in poker and how do you play in position? I'll tell you.

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