Best hand before the flop ( texas hold'em)?

Question

What are the 5 (or 10) best hands to have before the flop?
i know AA is one of the best but what are th other ones?
(e.g.) with which hands would you go all in before the flop if you have a small stack?)

Answer 1

AA, KK QQ JJ would be highest.
Next would be combos of the above starting with AK, AQ, AJ, etc.

The odds will be on your side but it doesn't always work. I've been stung holding AA on many an occasion.

Good luck.

Answer 2

The best hand is of course two aces and you will get 2 aces once every 211 hands, then two kings, two queens, a-k suited, two jacks, a-q suited, and two tens. Playing the top hands in hold'em is easy, it is when you have k-8 off suit and you have to call that big raise from a player that you know is bluffing you, that is what wins poker games. Only 6% of the time you will pick up a big hand like a-k or a big pair so playing the middle cards right in hold'em especially ace small is so important, ace rag in low limit hold'em can be costly if you play it wrong, ace rag make's up almost 20% of the hands you will play.If i was short on chips i would like a hand like 8-9 suited or 9-10, you don't want to push with ace rag at a full table with short chips because you likely to get called by a bigger ace, having a hand like 8-9 suited means you will be live on the flop most times. Hands like suited connectors have the greatest chance of betting hands like two aces or a-k. Remember fortune favors the prepared mind, and the more i practice something the more luck i seem to have.

Answer 3

Jthreattix is still a rookie you can tell, don't listen to him.. Anyway it's pretty much what everyone else said. AA,KK, QQ, JJ, AK, AQ, AJ. 10/10 is a good hand but is risky because it can be beaten easily by a overcard just like any middle pair. But if I had a small stack I would probably go in with any pair that I got because you can't wait for hands. Those blinds come around and lower your chip stack even more.

Answer 4

AA through 22. Even a 22 against an AK suited has a slight advantage. It is usually referred to as a horse race when a pair is up against two cards higher in value. But the odds still say the pair is better.

Answer 5

Any pair is good (low pairs not so much)

AA
KK
QQ
JJ
10/10

A/K
A/Q
A/J

(above cards suited is even better)

It really depends on the moment and who you are playing against. Some people to go all in would want to have a winning hard, so a pair, so you are ahead, A/K is good, but before the flop you only have Ace high.

Answer 6

It's just too random and too risky to go all in regardless of what you have before the flop. You could have Ace Ace, or Ace King, King King, etc. and the flop is 3,5,4 and someone else has 6,7, and you're just SOL. Happened all the time to me when I was a rookie. So I learned my lesson...

That's why they just say work on your poker face.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

kk
qq
jj
10 10
i would go all in for all