Can I find a list of starting hands by rank anywhere?
06-15-2018
, 09:27 AM
06-15-2018
, 02:51 PM
We could have a fun discussion over whether 222 or KKK is better but I'm not sure it would be worth the time spent. I guess the runner-runner-runner-runner low is more common than trips over trips.
As Scotch says it's highly situational depending on upcards, number of players, strength of different opponents, etc. so your primary concern shouldn't be following a chart. That said I always find those answers a little unsatisfying. If you held everything constant you probably could make a chart, but the chart would need tweaking as soon as one of the assumptions went out the window. Such a chart wouldn't be worthless, but it would be dangerous if you didn't know how much you needed to tweak it.
Maybe pedagogically better is to identify marginal hands of each type and construct examples where you'd raise, call, or fold them. For example:
8
(7
4
)
8(74)
4(78)
and so forth. What action, opponents, upcards would make you want to play those? Here, I'll make up an example:
$20/40 mix game, 7 card stud 8 or better.
Most players are recreational. Seat 4 seems to know all the games well. We are Seat 1.
$3 ante
Seat 6 bring-in for $5 with 3
J fold
9 fold
We have 8(74)
Behind us are
6
K
4
So yeah, invent some synthetic examples like I just did and post them for discussion!
As Scotch says it's highly situational depending on upcards, number of players, strength of different opponents, etc. so your primary concern shouldn't be following a chart. That said I always find those answers a little unsatisfying. If you held everything constant you probably could make a chart, but the chart would need tweaking as soon as one of the assumptions went out the window. Such a chart wouldn't be worthless, but it would be dangerous if you didn't know how much you needed to tweak it.
Maybe pedagogically better is to identify marginal hands of each type and construct examples where you'd raise, call, or fold them. For example:
8
(74)8
(74)4
(78)and so forth. What action, opponents, upcards would make you want to play those? Here, I'll make up an example:
$20/40 mix game, 7 card stud 8 or better.
Most players are recreational. Seat 4 seems to know all the games well. We are Seat 1.
$3 ante
Seat 6 bring-in for $5 with 3
J
fold9
foldWe have 8
(74)Behind us are
6
K
4
So yeah, invent some synthetic examples like I just did and post them for discussion!
