NL Hold’em Starting Hand Charts. From the small blind, play the same hands you would play from late position, plus a few more. But don't call with junk hands like T5o, just because it is “cheap”. From the big blind, if there is a raise to you, play. A9 does appear in the minimum hand requirements for opening in late position because of the numeric value of the cards alone. Starting hole cards that do not match an opponent's hole cards are usually only small favorites versus each other head to head (except pair against pair).

The most important aspect of reading this hold'em EV chart however, is to be able to understand the basic theory of which hands perform well and why. You'll see that position is a great factor in expected value, as hands in later position almost always win the most of any hand and also have a consistent pattern at winning money. Pocket Aces (Ace-Ace) and other big-pocket pairs (like King-King) are the best starting hands in any position in Texas Hold’em.

Now that you understand the position concept we are going to expand on that by looking at the subject of which starting hands to play and which to throw in the muck.

This is the area where inexperienced players become fish, simply by not having the ability to fold weak hands before the flop. You can save a lot of money at this stage of the hand just by simply choosing not to play.

The Importance of Starting Hand Selection

As you know Poker is a game of maths and probability. It is therefore possible to know which starting hands are most probable to win a hand and this has been statistically proven in many studies. These studies have been able to rank starting hands according to how likely they are to win the hand against a random selection of opponent’s starting hands.

Starting hand

By Starting Hand we mean the two hole cards which are dealt to you at the start of each hand.

Since we now know which are the best starting hands in poker then we can apply this knowledge to our strategy. Remember, when we play a hand, we want to play with the odds in our favour, and by selectively choosing which starting hands we play we can ensure this.

Of course if we just waited for the two or three best poker starting hands then we wouldn’t actually play many hands as the probability of these cards being dealt is only once in a while.

So we combine the position concept with our starting hand concept, to allow us to only play a narrow starting hand selection when out of position and to play a wider range of starting hands when we are in position. Therefore the benefit of playing in position makes up for the weaker starting hands we may play.

Starting Hand Groups

You could look at all the statistical information and studies, but we’ve taken all the work out of it for you. The following section is a key part of your strategy and you should practise choosing the right action before the flop using the poker starting hands chart below.

We have chosen 46 different hands that we will play depending on the position and situation we are in. Those 46 hands have been separated into 8 groups named Group A to H. Group A are the strongest hands in poker based on the statistics and group H are the weakest hands that we are willing to play. Of course there are many more hand combinations weaker than the hands in Group H, but we are not interested in playing with these and they will be folded into the muck straight away.

Group B

Group D

AQs

AJs

Group F

KJs

QJs

Group H

J8s

T8s

87s

76s

The ‘s’ next to some of the hands stands for Suited, so two cards of the same suit. ‘AJs’ could stand for A J whereas ‘AJ’ could stand for A J

Take a minute just to browse the hands in each group, you don’t need to memorise these, as you can use the chart to refer to, and once you have used it for a while, you will start to remember which hands are in which groups.

Poker Starting Hand Charts

Ok, so now we have our selection of 46 hands, and have split them into 8 groups based on strength, now what? Well we won’t just automatically play any of those 46 hands when they are dealt to us, we will make a decision based on the position we are in, and the situation we are faced with at the table.

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When we are in position we will play a wider range of groups and out of position we will only play the stronger groups. Similarly when opponents have shown strength at the table by raising we will only play the better cards against them.

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There are three charts, UNRAISED, RAISED and BLINDS. These are our Action charts, and show us what action to take when we have a hand in one of the starting hand groups.

The three charts are:

UNRAISED – When everybody acting before you has either folded or called the big blind.
RAISED – When somebody acting before you has raised.
BLINDS – When you are in either the small blind or the big blind position and somebody acting before you has raised

UNRAISED
Everybody acting before you has either Folded or Called the Big Blind
Action	Early Position	Mid Position	Late Position
Opening Raise	A B C D	A B C D E	A B C D E F
Call a Re-Raise	B C	C	C D
Raise a Re-Raise	A	A B	A B
Call the Big Blind (if Multiway Pot)	F G	G H

Texas Holdem Starting Hand Percentages

RAISED
Someone acting before you has Raised already
Action	Early Position	Mid Position	Late Position
Re-Raise	A B	A B	A B
Call	C	C	C D

BLINDS
After a Raise and You are in the Blinds
Action	Raised from Early Position	Raise from Mid Position	Raised from Late Position
Unraised Blinds – Play as if you were in Late Position in the Unraised chart
Re-Raise	A	A B C	A B C D
Call	B C D	D E	E F

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Holdem Starting Hands By Position