Poker Starting Hands
In Texas Hold'em, there are 1326 total possible starting hands. Considering that you have all these combinations, when you consider that so many hands (2 card combinations) are the same- for instance AH 2S is the same as AD 2H. There are only 169 hands that are actually unique. In Hold'em you will get your 2 starting cards which will be one of the 169 possible starting combinations and you will have to decide whether to call, raise or fold your cards. We have set out the win rate of each hand when randomly played against any other hand. This guide is intended to give you an indication of how each hand compares in terms of strength against any other card combination.These statistics were calculated by Dennis Purdy using a computer system simulation of 1 Million hands dealt. Please note that figures do vary depending on the number of players at the table. This guide is simply to show you all of the comparisons of Texas Holdem starting hands.
1. | A-A pair | 86.1% | 2. | KK pair | 74.6% | 3. | AKs | 68.6% |
4. | QQ pair | 68.5% | 5. | AKu | 67.0% | 6. | AQs | 64.9% |
7. | JJ pair | 64.4% | 8. | 10-10 pair | 60.8% | 9. | AQu | 60.5% |
10. | AJs | 58.6% | 11. | 99 pair | 55.4% | 12. | KQs | 54.6% |
13. | 88 pair | 51.8% | 14. | A-10s | 50.7% | 15. | AJu | 48.9% |
16. | KJs | 45.3% | 17. | QJs | 44.2% | 18. | A8s | 41.5% |
19. | K-10s | 40.9% | 20. | A-9s | 40.5% | 21. | J-10s | 40.0% |
22. | Q-10s | 39.4% | 23. | KQu | 39.2% | 24. | 10-9s | 38.3% |
25. | A-10u | 34.4% | 26. | A-7s | 33.9% | 27. | A-4s | 30.6% |
28. | A-5s | 29.7% | 29. | A-6s | 29.6% | 30. | 77 pair | 28.6% |
31. | J9s | 27.9% | 32. | 66 pair | 26.2% | 33. | A3s | 21.3% |
34. | 55 pair | 20.7% | 35. | KJu | 20.5% | 36. | A2s | 20.0% |
37. | K9s | 20.0% | 38. | Q9s | 19.1% | 39. | A9u | 17.4% |
40. | QJu | 16.8% | 41. | A7u | 10.2% | 42. | A8u | 10.0% |
43. | A6u | 9.9% | 44. | 98s | 9.8% | 45. | J8s | 9.8% |
46. | A4u | 9.6% | 47. | K8s | 9.5% | 48. | 10-8s | 9.5% |
49. | A5u | 9.4% | 50. | J-10u | 9.4% | 51. | Q-10u | 9.3% |
52. | K-10u | 9.1% | 53. | Q9u | 8.8% | 54. | A2u | 8.8% |
55. | 10-9u | 8.8% | 56. | K7s | 8.6% | 57. | A3u | 8.5% |
58. | K6s | 8.4% | 59. | J9u | 8.4% | 60. | 10-7s | 8.4% |
61. | 44 pair | 8.3% | 62. | K9u | 8.2% | 63. | 87s | 8.0% |
64. | 76s | 7.2% | 65. | 97s | 5.8% | 66. | 33 pair | 4.5% |
67. | Q5s | 4.4% | 68. | K5s | 4.3% | 69. | Q8s | 4.2% |
70. | 65s | 4.2% | 71. | J8u | 4.1% | 72. | 22 pair | 4.0% |
73. | K3s | 4.0% | 74. | 10-6s | 3.9% | 75. | K4s | 3.9% |
76. | 10-8u | 3.9% | 77. | 85s | 3.9% | 78. | 74s | 3.9% |
79. | 95s | 3.8% | 80. | Q7s | 3.8% | 81. | J7s | 3.8% |
82. | J3s | 3.8% | 83. | 98u | 3.8% | 84. | 87u | 3.8% |
85. | 53s | 3.7% | 86. | 86s | 3.6% | 87. | 75s | 3.6% |
88. | 64s | 3.6% | 89. | K2s | 3.6% | 90. | 54s | 3.6% |
91. | Q8u | 3.5% | 92. | Q6s | 3.5% | 93. | J5s | 3.5% |
94. | K8u | 3.4% | 95. | 97u | 3.4% | 96. | J4s | 3.3% |
97. | 84s | 3.3% | 98. | 10-5s | 3.2% | 99. | 96s | 3.2% |
100. | K6u | 3.1% | 101. | Q2s | 3.1% | 102. | J6s | 3.1% |
103. | Q3s | 3.0% | 104. | Q4s | 3.0% | 105. | K7u | 2.8% |
106. | 63s | 2.4% | 107. | 73s | 2.1% | 108. | K2u | 1.6% |
109. | Q4u | 1.6% | 110. | 43s | 1.6% | 111. | K4u | 1.5% |
112. | K3u | 1.5% | 113. | Q6u | 1.5% | 114. | Q7u | 1.4% |
115. | Q5u | 1.4% | 116. | J2s | 1.4% | 117. | K5u | 1.3% |
118. | 10-4s | 1.3% | 119. | 10-3s | 1.3% | 120. | 32s | 0.7% |
121. | 94s | 0.7% | 122. | 76u | 0.7% | 123. | 52s | 0.6% |
124. | 10-2s | 0.5% | 125. | 42s | 0.5|% | 126. | J6u | 0.5% |
127. | J4u | 0.5% | 128. | J2u | 0.5% | 129. | 96u | 0.5% |
130. | 85u | 0.5% | 131. | Q3u | 0.4% | 132. | J7u | 0.4% |
133. | 10-7u | 0.4% | 134. | 10-5u | 0.4% | 135. | 10-3u | 0.4% |
136. | 92u | 0.4% | 137. | 84u | 0.4% | 138. | 74u | 0.4% |
139. | 72u | 0.4% | 140. | J5u | 0.4% | 141. | J3u | 0.4% |
142. | 10-4u | 0.4% | 143. | 92s | 0.4% | 144. | 95u | 0.4% |
145. | 93u | 0.4% | 146. | 83s | 0.4% | 147. | 83u | 0.4% |
148. | 73u | 0.4% | 149. | 54u | 0.4% | 150. | 42u | 0.4% |
151. | Q2u | 0.3% | 152. | 10-6u | 0.3% | 153. | 93s | 0.3% |
154. | 94u | 0.3% | 155. | 86u | 0.3% | 156. | 82u | 0.3% |
157. | 72s | 0.3% | 158. | 75u | 0.3% | 159. | 62s | 0.3% |
160. | 52u | 0.3% | 161. | 43u | 0.3% | 162. | 10-2u | 0.3% |
163. | 82s | 0.3% | 164. | 65u | 0.3% | 165. | 53u | 0.3% |
166. | 32u | 0.3% | 167. | 64u | 0.2% | 168. | 63u | 0.2% |
169. | 62u | 0.2% |
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