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Randy Holland our buddy from ParadisePoker.com stops by to give us his weekly Texas Hold'em Tips. Read On!!!! Randy Says: "I play at Paradise because of the security and integrity of the site and I love the array of options when choosing which game to play." Accomplishments: Back to back titles at the L.A. Poker Classic in 2002 and 2003 in Limit Hold'em. Two World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets/championships; 2001 World Poker Open Stud Hi-Lo Champion; 2000 WSOP Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Champion; 1996 WSOP Razz Champion

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Hold'em Tips Playing Big Hands Playing Medium Hands Playing Small Hands
Playing Suited Big Cards Playing Unsuited Big Cards
Playing Lesser Suited Cards Playing Other Hands Playing The Blinds

Hold'em Tips For Texas Hold'em

Playing Suited Big Cards

1. Playing Suited Big Cards
Obviously if your big cards are suited it is preferable over having them not suited. However, that difference is not as great as it appears. With two suited cards you only make a flush about 6% of the time and that assumes you stay in to catch two runners if one of your suit is on the flop. You will flop two of your suit 10.9% of the time, and connect on your four-flush 35 % of the time. When you flop one of your suit your flush will connect less than 5% of the time. That said, with large suited cards, these hands also create opportunities to make high pairs, and you also have high straight possibilities.

Suited hands, both big cards and smaller cards, play better in volume pots with many callers. This is because when they make a flush the bets your opponents put into the pot are often very weak or dead bets. You want opponents available to make those plays. The greater the number of opponents the greater the propensity those negative expectation plays will be made against you. When you hold or are drawing to less than the nut flush be highly aware that you can make your flush and lose. (A king high flush will lose to an Ace high flush 6% of the time against opponents who will play Axs, Kxs.)

AKs-AQs-AJs,-ATs-KQs:

With the volume concept in mind, I tend to flat call in early position with these hands. Opening in middle position, raising with these hands becomes more viable because you have lost some of your volume potential, and the profit from the hands begins to shift from flush potential to high card potential. The later your position and the stronger the current situation based on such variables as texture, the more often you should raise.

KJs-QJs,-JTs,-KTs-QTs:

In tight and/or aggressive games, as a general rule these hands belong in the muck in early position. In loose passive games and where your after-the-flop play is superior to your opponents these hands are early callers. (I rate JTs over KTs or QTs, because of its added straight possibilities.) In middle position these hands are worth calling a single bet whether opening or acting behind a limper, where you don't expect aggression from behind. Note that the lower the rank of the hand the stronger the positives of the situation must be. In late position, unless you think you are in kicker trouble KJs and QJs are generally raising hands. KTs, QTs and JTs are worth a raise only if the situation is a strong one. Raise more liberally in situations where you think your opponents have the propensity to check to the raiser, giving you an option for a free card. Also raise more liberally if you think you may rob or fold the blinds. Note that the propensity to be in kicker trouble (more thoroughly discussed under unsuited big cards) is great with these hands. Most players have a tendency to overplay these hands, and go off for too many bets when they make the second best hand, as these hands so often do.

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