If you're playing Texas Hold'em, you have 7 cards to chose your hand from. There are 133,784,560 to deal 7 random cards. This changes the odds and probabilities for all poker hands a bit. Those are the probabilities and odds for all Texas Hold'em Poker hands: These hands also have a little o after them-Yellow for a hand that has been selected. So in any given chart, all the hands that are yellow are part of the respective range. -The percentage numbers indicate what percentage of the total starting hands is included in a particular hand range. 2 Texas hold'em cheat sheet with some quick pointers. Preflop. Use the starting hand to determine whether the hand must be played in the first place or not. Open raise 3 big blinds. Reraise to 3 times when in position and 4 times when out of position. Continuation betting. The above 3 sets of hands add up to form the common answer of 169 Texas Hold'em starting hands. There are actually 1,326 combinations of starting hands if you count suits (e.g. A♣-A♦ and A♠-A♥ are different hands), but that is more of a "just for fun" number as suits have no value over each other in Texas Hold'em. Poker Hand Rankings Chart Royal Flush An ace high straight flush. Straight Flush Five consecutive cards in the same suit. Four of a Kind Four cards of the same rank. Full House Three cards of the same rank with two cards of another same rank. Flush Five cards in the same suit (not consecutive). Straight Five consecutive cards of different suits. 1 percent (1-in-100): Percentage of time that no player holds an Ace or a King at a table in a 10-handed game. 1 percent (1-in-100): Percentage of time that if you hold two suited cards, you'll flop a flush. 6 percent (about 1-in-20): Percentage of time that five community cards will give pocket suited cards a flush. Knowing what beats what in poker or Texas Hold'em is an important early step in learning the game. To help you out, I have provided for you an attractive printable or downloadable "cheat sheet" for both 5 card hand rankings as well as top 24 pre-flop starting hands. Poker hands ranked from best to worst: Royal Flush; Straight Flush; Four •Getting Started in Hold'em, E. Miller -excellent beginner book •Winning Low Limit Hold'em, L. Jones -excellent book for non-beginners •The Theory of Poker, D. Sklansky -advanced concepts (non-Texas Hold'em specific) •Illustrated Guide to Texas Hold'em, D. Purdy -good exercises that develop understanding like from their hand Second round of bets, starting with the player to the left of the dealer Showdown. Players reveal their hands, clockwise from the last player called. Winning hand takes the pot! Anatomy of a Hand of Seven-Card Stud Antes are placed and cards are shuffled Players are dealt cards: two face-down and one face-up each Each hand has four stages, and after each stage there is a round of betting. The four stages are: 1. (Pre-flop) Everyone gets two cards (dealt face down). 2. (Flop) Three cards are dealt face up in the middle of the table. 3. (Turn) A fourth card is dealt face up in the middle of the table. 4. of thinking, plus many hours of playing time at the hold 'em tables. Keep in mind that the following strategies are designed for medium limit games, that is $10-$20 hold 'em up to (and including) $40-$80 hold 'em. In smaller games, or games that feature people who play too many hands and go too far with their Primarily, you can't play poker well if you don't know what hands to make. As outlined with he