The Poker Mag

The best poker hands can be described in several ways, and will of course be different in differing forms of poker too.

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If you are looking for a best starting hand in a game such as Omaha, you will be looking at hands like (A,A,K,K) double suited, or similar kinds of hands. As soon as we look at Omaha hi/lo, the best starting hands involve cards such as (A,A,2,3) double suited. The Omaha high best hand, is still strong as a starting poker hand in the hi/lo format, but the different rules for splitting the pot, change the best hand possible hand. It becomes more important in this instance to include cards which give the best shot at picking up both halves of the pot.

In poker games such as Seven Card Stud, starting hands such as high pairs that are concealed, or even trips in your first three cards are strong starting points. Texas Holdem starting hands which are strongest include, (A,A) (K,K) (A,K). These hands have a high chance of dominating opposing poker hands preflop, and whilst this does not mean you are a certainty to win, it drastically increases your chances. The best poker hands can be viewed in a different way however, because as players, we can count our best ever hands as a brilliant fold or bluff we made, rather than simply making a Royal Flush or being dealt a great starting hand.

In short, the best poker hands would be more accurately viewed as those hands when we played to the best of our poker abilities, either earning extra chips, or losing the minimum in the process. Even if you do lose a hand which you played exceptionally well, you should still be fairly happy, because other factors such as misfortune, are always beyond our control.

Poker has developed as a game rather quietly during it’s early history, always being known as a game for hustlers and cheats until around 40 years ago.

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During that time the game developed many different formats and variations of the game, with each of these providing it’s own challenge to poker players. Around the early 1970′s the World Series of Poker began to bring the game a little more into the public eye, attracting the best players in the world, and giving them a chance to test their skills against each other.

This gradually caught the attention of the potential players out there who had at least a passing interest in the game, and the exploits of great poker players such as Johnny Moss and Doyle Brunson began to inspire.
With televised poker games came the under table camera, and later on, the internet provided a place for players to learn the game from the comfort of their own home. This opened the world of poker to the masses, and pretty soon the game started to grow much faster than before.

Over the past ten years or so, poker has experienced a huge boom in popularity, stretching to many countries across the globe.  Texas Holdem has been the favoured game for a long time now, but some might argue the tables are beginning to turn in terms of the most popular poker game today. With the passing years, Holdem players have become tougher to beat as their expertise grows, and so the best in the world have begun to embrace Omaha a little more. This is undoubtedly still a game where players make plenty of mistakes, and so the potential for profitable situations for experienced players is good. It is the belief of many (including myself) that Omaha will become the next big poker game in due course, but there will always be a place in the hearts of most poker players, for Texas Holdem.

Sometimes it can be difficult to know when to try and extract the most from a fairly strong poker hand and when to play it safe. Unless your poker opponent is intent on forcing you into a decision for all your poker chips, you will usually have the chance to either make a raise or reraise on the river, or simply be careful and pick up what is already in the middle.

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Poker can be a cruel game sometimes, and so getting all your chips in preflop when you are in front is often the best way to leave poker situations to luck. If you feel you are a better poker player than most of your opponents, you would often be better off waiting for the correct moment to allow them to make mistakes. If you get a lot of poker chips into a pot on the turn or river, you are leaving far less to luck, and so it is advisable to follow this path where possible.

If you know you are going to make more correct decisions than the next player, you want to give yourself the chance to gradually, but steadily, build a stack in this way. Often the blinds in a poker tournament can make it increasingly difficult to do this, but in the early stages, it should be relatively easy to use your poker skill to your benefit. Despite the fact that bad beats can still hurt you on the river if your money goes in good on the turn, you ensure your opponents are at least drawing thin if you can read poker hands fairly well.

The best poker hands you can make are not often seen at the poker tables. The Royal Flush is the biggest possible poker hand, and is rare to find.

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When looking at the best possible poker hands, it is important to remember that having a very strong hand is all well and good, but if nobody else has anything to put chips in with, it isn’t much use. With that in mind, you could say that the best possible poker hands will always be those that are fractionally better than anyone elses at the table. I would happily take an Ace Flush against a King Flush rather than a Royal Flush against Ace high, because I will be paid off in the first instance.

The best hands are not always the standard poker hands which you find in games such as Holdem, as there are also variants that require a different type of hand to be made. These games are hi/lo variants usually, although there are other different games such as Badugi, but that isn’ really a form of poker as such. This hi/lo aspect applies to Razz too, which is recognised as a poker game, but only involves players trying to make the lowest unpaired five card hand.

In the cases of hi/lo games, (A,2,3,4,5) would be the best possible poker hand as the Ace counts as low. You could of course look at the best poker hands in terms of memorable poker hands, and most players will have a few of these type of hands. Hands can be memorable for a number of reasons, but usually it is a case of a final hand having won you a tournament, an extremely strong hand, or even simply a huge bluff. The best poker hands can be examined in many different ways but overall, you have to say that any hand you win is a good one.