Texas Hold em Strategy - Online Texas Hold em Poker

The game of Online Texas Hold Em Poker is generally a High card game with an easy to learn Texas Hold Em Strategy. In other words, the players who hold the best two high cards have the absolute best chance at winning the hand or drawing to win the hand. The best way of winning is by playing only the strong hands and folding with the rest. There is no point of continuing on if you don’t have a good hand. Save your money for a later hand. Below are the hands and definitions explained.

Definitions:
HIGH CARDS - A thru 10 (Aces, Faces and Tens)
MEDIUM CARDS - 9 thru 7
LOW CARDS - 6 thru 2
SUITED PLAYER HAND (S) - Both cards of the same suit.
NUT HAND - An unbeatable hand. Sometimes called a "lock".
FLOP, TURN. RIVER - The community cards in the order of distribution. See top illustration.
FAST PLAY - Bet, raise and re-raise to get as many other players out as possible.
SLOW PLAY - Just check or call along to keep other players in the game to increase the pot odds.
CHECK-FOLD - Check when you can and fold if you are bet into. Gladly accept all free cards offered.

The Strongest Starting Hands
PAIR of HIGH CARDS	AA, KK, QQ, JJ, 1010
ACE and HIGH CARD SUITED	AK(S), AQ(S), AJ(S), A10(S)
FACES SUITED	KQ(S), KJ(S), QJ(S)
ACE KING	AK

Medium Strength Starting Hands
FACE TEN SUITED	K10(S), Q10(S), J10(S)
MEDIUM PAIRS	99, 88, 77
TWO HIGH CARDS	AQ, AJ, A10 (ace king ranks higher, above), KQ down to J10
ACE and MEDIUM SUITED	A9(S), A8(S), A7(S)
MEDIUM SUITED CONNECTORS	109(S), 98(S), 87(S)

Other Conditional Starting Hands
LOW PAIRS	66, 55, 44, 33, 22
ACE and LOW SUITED	A6(S), A5(S), A4(S), A3(S), A2(S)
LOW SUITED CONNECTORS	76(S), 65(S), 54(S) (lowest)