The 10 worst hands in Texas Hold'em

A quick guide to the 10 worst hands you can have in Texas Hold'em
Everyone knows enough to pair of Aces is the best hand you can have in Texas Hold'em, but the hands are the worst seems not as well known. Here, we briefly review what happens you will not have any hopes of, or as an American might put it: "Fold'em in Hold'em."

1. 2-7
2-7 in different colors regarded as the absolute worst hand in Texas Hold'em. It is the 2 low cards may have been unable to form a ladder together (because there are 4 cards between 2 and 7). Although they are in the same color so you can at most have a very low color and produces a couple of them with cards on the table is the low pair. Some play this hand for fun because it just has the worst record in online poker and called it sometimes "the hammer".

2. 2-8
2-8 has the same poor conditions as 2-7 - 8: use your highest card so you do not have good prospects with this hand, either.

3. 3-8 and 3-7
These two hands are almost as bad. 3-8 is bad for the same reason as 2-7. 3-7 may indeed be a ladder, but it is almost as low it can be.

4. 2-6
With the 2-6, you could get a ladder with miraculous 3-4-5 on the table, but suffice it to someone sitting with 6-7 to have a higher ladder. Can you paint is certainly someone with a higher color. Played against 4 other players lose this hand in around 90% of cases - no further odds.

5. 2-9, 3-9 and 4-9
This only thing to make these hands better than the above (2-6) at 9: an. Officials even if there is a 9 on a table, you will be beaten by someone with a pair of 10. In addition, you can not get straight with any of these happening. Sometimes you can believe that we have a good chance if there are many low cards on the table, but it says nothing about what is someone sitting at hand.

6. 2-10
This hand is something of a legend as poker professional Doyle Brunson has won the 2 pieces World Series of Poker (WSOP) with the. However, it is a bad hand. Are you not, as Doyle Brunson, one of the best poker players with thousands of hours at the poker table, do not try to win with this hand, sometimes called the "Doyle Brunson".

7. 9-5
This hand is called "Dolly Parton" because she made a song called "Nine Five Thursday." To play a hand because it has a funny name is not a good idea, and the statistics are clear: this hand will lose too often.

8. 4-7, 4-8, 5-8 and 3-6
These hands, especially off suit, rarely wins. Probably you should throw them away even if you sit on the small blind. Are you on the big blind and nobody raised, you naturally look at the flop.

9. Face card + low cards in different colors
A common mistake is to play a hand just because it contains a face card (Jack, Queen, Customer). Is your other cards very low - eg, J-2, Q-3, K-4 etc. - is the hand not so good. It wins the course sometimes, but the chance is a bit too large to have a better card. The more players there are at the table, the more often should we play like this happens. Is it just you and another one is happening more these games just because the odds that someone has a better card then decreases.

10. Ace + low cards in different colors
This type of hand is only slightly better than last - the win but sometimes are not so playable with many players around the table. Man-against-man (heads-up) is not so bad, but if you are 4 or more around the table, you should beware, especially if you become height.


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