Starting hands

[billyjustin]

this sounds like some whining about reading books. Sorry, kinda waste of my time

[ddavey25]

if you need to read books to play poker then your not a good player anyways...If a book can teach you anything about the game then you need to go back to grade school. Its simple math.

[ssuglia]

if you need to read books to play poker then your not a good player anyways...If a book can teach you anything about the game then you need to go back to grade school. Its simple math.

If you think there is nothing to be learned from a book (or any other learning method), you will forever be a donkey.

[sagiPOTM]

you can lose with AA vs 3 9 off suit, so luck is much involved...

[sunburnt2k11]

hello and welcome all the new people here on the site. good luck on the tables.

[mathkid]

I know that having big slicfk pre flop is quite a trap many times. we get a raise and a min reraise it seems easy to gauge.

either call or then push to get 1 player to most likely fold

but getting it all in with 22 + and u r coin flippish

anyway I guess it can be a touigh call to make if u want to be a winning player

[GarlicButter]

22 coin flip at best

[Swickster007]

Don't forget crazy 8's for some reason 88 is one of my best hands...not that I play it everytime but when I do, I prefer dos equis...i mean I usually hit the set. lol

[buonafide]

God JJ is such an annoying/tough hand to play. The flop brings a scare card the majority of the time (55% I remember hearing? -could be completely wrong there) and it's tough to play after that. Honestly I sometimes just shove JJ and hope to avoid AA/KK/QQ. Probably a terrible strategy (although I don't actually do this if I'm playing high stakes or deep in a tournament) but seems like I lose a ton of money with JJ

you don't HAVE to raise preflop with JJ - and especially in freerolls/micro its a bad idea if you're in early position because you'll get multiple callers and not know how strong your hand is

[buonafide]

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