Complete list of pocket cards with values

I am starting this new thread off of Zaphors thread "Tip 4 playing tight"...beacuse it is getting lost and I feel that a lot of members might want to copy and past it.

Here is a complete list of your pocket cards in order of value. I made this up a while ago...I believe the blacks are the top half and the reds are the bottom half for a quick reference....the numbers next to them are their order of importance.

Sorry it took me some time to get this put up...but is a complete list that you can copy and print out for reference. If you want it in a larger format...ask and I will prepare it!

http://img113.echo.cx/img113/5899/pocketcards3qt.jpg

Well I don't know about anyone else but the print is so small I can't read it. Is there a way to increase the size?

I will reformat and make it larger Starlight.

This one is larger:

http://img249.echo.cx/img249/6269/pocketcardsa7nc.jpg

This file will give you a fair size in landscape form...click to enlarge once, then file print

http://img199.echo.cx/img199/4986/pocketcardse9yh.jpg

Hold your cursor over it until a box appears in the bottom right hand corner. Then click that box and it will decompress.

Very nice crapshoot. I like it. This can be VERY helpful for players just starting out in poker.

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Thx for the list Crapshoot, I have to admit that I didn't know that a 35s was stronger than an unsuited A9, or that A/low kickers were rated so low.

Funny what you don't know until someone tells you.

great post crapshoot. it answers alot of questions. i'll use it late in a tourney when i'm only playing top hands.

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i'm sorry, did you have pocket aces?

This list is helpfun to new players, but you actually need to understand whats evaluated. Are you rating percentages before the flop, or what I would rather see? ex: I would much rather see AKs because its a safe hand, than pocket 8's (at worst you figure to be a slight underdog, unless the ambiguous case of someone somehow nabbing 2 of the other three aces or kings) but if you run these hands in a showdown the 8's win more often.
And BTW ace 9 offsuit is better than 3-5 suited.
In general overpairs to underpairs win 4 of 5 times, when cards are shared the better hand wins 3 of 4 times (AK-KQ), pocket pairs are almost a coin flip agains any overs, and one over to a pocket pair will win about 1 of 4 times. This is roughly what I think of when playing a hand pre-flop, and I can think of my own list this way.

in a 9-player ring game, hands like AKs are better, as it is a drawing hand and the winning hand is likely to be a straight or a flush. Heads up, 22 is more effective as there are only two players and the chances of a straight or flush are slimmer, so there is a bigger chance that the low pair of deuces will hold out.

BRIEF: the more players in a hand, the less effective low pocket pairs are, and the more effective hands like AKs are.

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