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Texas Holdem Poker Beginning Strategy

Texas Holdem Poker Beginning Strategy

The best strategy for a beginner at Texas Holdem Poker is to play what is referred to as a tight game. This means that you should only be playing the very best starting hands. 

We’ll go over what these best Texas Holdem Poker starting hands are and the best way to play them before and after the flop. We will also get into playing the best starting hands on the turn and river.

The main thing that you need to understand when playing the best Texas Holdem Poker hands is that you will need to be patient. You must resist the temptation to play hands outside of the best starting hands. 

This means that you will be folding the majority of your starting Texas Holdem Poker hands.

The goal is to have you win money. The best way to do that is to win as much as possible on the hands that you have a chance to win and to minimize your losses on hands where you have little or no chance to win. 

You will minimize your losses by folding the bad hands.

Secondly, my Texas Holdem Poker beginning tips and strategy will also teach you how to play the best starting hands aggressively. 

An aggressive Texas Holdem Poker player will usually be able to force other players to fold early. Limiting the number of players in a game of Texas Holdem Poker lessens the number of players that can draw a card that will beat your hand.

That leads me to my next Texas Holdem Poker tip – win the game as quickly as possible. Again, don’t give your opponents unnecessary opportunities to draw cards to beat you.

On to the best starting Texas Holdem Poker hands! What I am referring to here are the two cards that are dealt face down to you. These are commonly referred to as your ‘hole cards’. 

The hands that you should be playing as a beginning Texas Holdem Poker player are:

A-A, K-K, Q-Q, J-J, 10-10, 9-9, 8-8, A-Ks (the s means suited ex Ace of clubs and K of clubs), A-Qs, K-Qs.

These are my preferred starting hands in Texas Holdem Poker. Study them. Memorize them. Know them inside and out. Your hole cards are the only two cards that distinguish your hand from your opponents in Texas Holdem Poker. 

As I said previously, you will want to play Texas Holdem Poker aggressively. When you are dealt one of the best Texas Holdem Poker starting hands, you will want to bet into your opponents forcing those with weaker hands to fold.
Betting and/or raising your opponents are amongst the best thing that you can do when it is your turn to act.

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