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i think so | 86 | 53.09% | |
not likely | 45 | 27.78% | |
not sure | 31 | 19.14% | |
Voters: 162. You may not vote on this poll |
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Do you know your starting hands?
Consider the game of No-Fold'em-Hold'em, which is played just like Texas Hold'em, except that there are no betting rounds. Instead, every player posts a big blind, and every hand makes it to the river for free thereafter.
In a 10-handed game of No-Fold'em-Hold'em, what do you think are the top ten best starting hands (in order)? Please try to answer without any programmatic aid! |
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Re: Do you know your starting hands?
AA, KK, AKs, AK, QQ, AQs, KQs, AJs, ATs, JJ,KJs
(in loose games where there's a few 'Ace Wonders' playing) |
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Re: Do you know your starting hands?
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AA, KK, AKs, AK, QQ, AQs, KQs, AJs, ATs, JJ,KJs (in loose games where there's a few 'Ace Wonders' playing) [/ QUOTE ] A couple of questions: 1. By "Ace Wonders" do you mean people who play any ace? 2. Does it matter what kind of players are in the game? |
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Re: Do you know your starting hands?
I voted "other," but I wouldn't be suprised if the answer is 3 (5 is close, but there's no way A10s is better than 1010). I wrote down a list before I even looked at the options. It started AA, KK, QQ, AKs, JJ, AQs. I'm pretty sure this is right. After that I think it should be AKo, AQo, 1010, KQs. I'm not sure about the KQs, it should probably be AJs. I think KQs is a better hand against a big field. That might just be because I like playing that hand better, though.
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Re: Do you know your starting hands?
Any of the other people who picked "Other" have a guess?
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#6
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Re: Do you know your starting hands?
Shameless bump to try to get some more responses before posting the answer.
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Re: Do you know your starting hands?
I find this really interesting, when you post the answers could u say why?
I guessed that pairs (1) were the fav. because im thinking that its pairs vs x where x is any hand. and for each answer it would be the top 10 hands against X so i figure that If each hand possibly played against the top 10 hands 100 times pairs would win more often that any other hand. I may be wrong i have no clue. |
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Re: Do you know your starting hands?
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[ QUOTE ] AA, KK, AKs, AK, QQ, AQs, KQs, AJs, ATs, JJ,KJs (in loose games where there's a few 'Ace Wonders' playing) [/ QUOTE ] A couple of questions: 1. By "Ace Wonders" do you mean people who play any ace? 2. Does it matter what kind of players are in the game? [/ QUOTE ] 1. Yep - ace with absolutely anything 2. Sorry, any loose games I play on party seem to have 1 or 2 Ace Wonders lately, and keep tough playing KK and QQ only to get an Ace on the turn or river, and know these donks will beat me (and they do - I lay em down, and they always go to the river and each turns up an ace+rubbish, more often than not). Obviously I'm posting a very short-term, personal list, and I should know better. But it's soooo annoying |
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Re: Do you know your starting hands?
JTs has to be on any of these lists
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ANSWER
The answer is #5. I was pretty surprised when I found this out, but I'm even more surprised that 23% of responders actually got the answer right. I was expecting a much lower percentage.
Among the unexpected (at least for me) characteristics: AKs is better than JJ, KQs is better than AJs, and ATs is better than TT. Here's a description of the other options I'd listed: AA, KK, QQ, JJ, TT, 99, 88, 77, 66, 55: Just the first ten pairs. As it turns out, med/small pairs are indeed pretty strong in this game, but not quite this strong. (11%) AA, KK, QQ, JJ, AKs, TT, AQs, AJs, KQs, AKo: The trusty S&M groups 1&2. (18%) AA, KK, QQ, AKs, JJ, AQs, AJs, TT, KQs, AKo: This is a slight re-organization of the S&M rankings, moving the big suited cards upward. Indeed, something like this would have been my initial guess, and ended up being the most popular answer. (34%) AA , KK, QQ, JJ, TT, 99, 88, AKs, 77, AQs: This is the answer for heads-up NFEHE. (8%) AA, KK, QQ, AKs, JJ, AQs, KQs, AJs, KJs, ATs: This is the answer for 10-handed NFEHE. (23%) |
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