Best poker start hand

[jetli2009]

never seem to win when I have AA bad luck i guess.

[ichbinnreine]

the only card that can help an AA is another ace... since there are only 2 left in the deck the odds of another one coming out arent that great. if you have AKs. sure it doesnt have the best starting odds, but you have a better flush and straight possiblility. if AA is vs AKs, i think AA would win 99% of the time. the odds of another A coming out are slim but are better than 2 kings coming out, or 10/J/Q or 3 of the same suit as the AK. anything can happen though lol.

[Paul27]

i found mine to be a 2 3 hand

[theil]

AA because AKs often leaves you nothing.

but at a full 10 player table i'd say AKs because it has the potential for a nut straight or a nut flush

[flyinryan]

for some reason a ten jack same suite always does the trick for me that is

[Marlo]

Originally Posted by 2Shey

chinese/irsh knows what he's talking about and I totaly agree with what he said.
I really don't see the point of going all in when you have a very high risk of someone calling and loosing all your chips. Stick to the high cards and give yourself a fighting chance.
Good Luck

chineseirish's post recomends going all in with AA AK. i agree with him, these are automatic hands to go all in on preflop, but if i had to chose the best one, my opinion is AK Suited.

with these hands you WANT someone to call you with them

[Iplay4me]

def AA, and guess what, just got AA in my mini tourny lol!

[Marlo]

Originally Posted by PJVedderGirl

Personally, I have NEVER won with AA. Every time I get it, I get all excited, woo hoo, good hand... then nothing. I am yet to actually win off that damned hand. KK is the same, I've had much better luck with nothing hands.

if you are losing every time with AA, and losing most of the time with KK too, then there is something wrong with the way you are playing the hands. of course sometimes these hands will lose, but it sounds to me like you could play them more effectively.

i dont know how you are playing them, but whatever you are doing now is not working. perhaps try being very agressive with them pre-flop, or if you've done that, then try playing them slow and have a look at the flop before getting your chips in. with pocket aces especially, you will usually either win a small pot, or lose a big one.

be lucky

[checkraise24]

Originally Posted by paul1983

i disagree i always lose with a k when its delt me i see it as a bogey hand for myself m8 but that just me. its all about wot you do with wot you got in your hand in my opinion not the cards themselves obviously there are better and worse ones but they can all win so dont go crazy with aa or ak read wots goin on at the table.

statistically, AA. however, whatever the community cards are ultimately determines your hand.

[PainTrain]

ace with any suited card , preferably king , queen or jack but any other will do.
with a flush you still hold the nut flush ( ace high ) but careful around those straight flushes , lost big time once doing that :/

pocket rockets make nice cards assuming you have many chips to make the pre-flop big bet.

KK and QQ take 3rd spot for me.

[jack5offsuitrulez]

AA would always be preferrable. AK suited does present more potentially superior hands, but these are statistically improbable. AA means your opponent HAS to hit at least two pair to best you...unless of course they have AA too

[PokerP]

Statistically AA is the best starting hand. If you take AA out of the deck and deal some random starting hands and a random board AA will give you the best hand the majority of the time. If you look at the table via the link below you can see that AA will win 85% of the time against an unknown hand in a heads up situation and also performs best winning 31% of the time against 9 other unknown starting hands.

By comparison AKs is ranked 4th best hand (behind KK and QQ) when there are several players and slips to 8th in a heads up being statistically worse in this situation than 88.

http://www.gocee.com/poker/HE_Val_Sort.htm

[firecutting]

Wow, good post pokerP , i like any hand without a 4 in it , the best hand for me is ace jack

AA is best pre-flop hand

[Survey]

With pocket Aces I always go all in. You stand a better chance as the players going against you will be looking for flushes, 3 of a kind. Top pair in the pocket always stands a good chance but get rid of the straights and 2 pair hands with all in.

[Tb1rd]

J 9 suited ...spades preferably

um

88 they do me a whole world of good