Texas Holdem Starting Hands - Texas Holdem HandsThere is not much mystery to Texas Holdem starting hands, despite what veil the procedure of flop, turn, and community style poker in general puts around it. Sure, a Texas Holdem starting hand is not as straightforward as what you're dealt in five card stud, but this has simply to do with the fact that the strengths and weaknesses of a starting hand in five card stud are blaringly apparent. Assessing the strength of a Texas Holdem starting hand requires a bit of forward thinking and a firm grasp of Texas Holdem hand rankings. Measuring the value of a starting hand in terms of hand closing probability and potential hand strength, here are the absolute top ten Texas Holdem Starting Hands.The odds of closing a full house, or three to four of a kind are well in your favor should your Texas Holdem Starting hand contain two of the same card. Closing one of these three hands is far more likely than closing a straight flush, or royal straight flush. Therefore the best three Texas Holdem starting hands are from most to least precious: two aces, two kings, and two queens. Do you want instant cash bonuses; sign-up and reload bonuses? If so, BodogPoker is for you!! Bodog.com is a very popular online Sports/Poker/Casino website which offers a great player points system along with many free-roll tournaments! Are you ready to win a seat into this year's World Series of Poker Main Event? Bodog Poker has built the best reputation for Online Gaming by nailing four key service points; offering quick and simple depositing methods, instant cash bonuses, fast payouts, and the most impressive customer service department in the industry! Join Bodog Poker today! Beyond two queens the odds of closing a high-value hand versus potential hand strength ratio kicks in. The fourth and fifth best Texas Holdem starting hands are ace and king suited or ace and queen suited. Either of these positions you for a royal straight flush. Following in the tradition of the royal pairs listed above, the sixth most valuable Texas Holdem starting hand is a pair of jacks. This is the last such appearance of a two-of-a-kind pocket in the top ten. The seventh, eighth, and ninth placed Texas Holdem starting hands, like numbers four and five, lay the groundwork for a royal straight flush: suited sets of king and queen, ace and jack, or king and jack. The oddball Texas Holdem starting hand of the bunch, coming in at number ten, is the unsuited ace and king combo. This Texas Holdem starting hand sets the stage for a royal straight. Learn how to play Texas Holdem For those who want, this model can be extended so that the value of each and every Texas Holdem starting hand is mathematically assessed and ranked. For example, the next highest hand, the eleventh most valuable would be an ace and queen unsuited. Certainly there is little need to carry the model to extremes, for many Texas Holdem starting hands speak for themselves. However, a basic grounding on the relative values of Texas Holdem starting hands will both improve and quicken your in-game decision making skills, and is especially useful when combined with hand odds calculation. Win your seat into the next 2010 WSOP or WPT event by joining Bodog Poker and playing in a satellite tournament! --- by Bones McCoy at offshorepokerroom.com on June 22, 2006
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