The biggest mistake beginning poker players make is with their starting hands. In fact, most poker “fish” are surprised to find out that there is actually a system for picking starting hands. They will play almost any face card, no matter what the second card is.

In some ways, poker is a bit like dating. The better the “car” you show up in, the better chance you have of getting lucky. The same is true with starting hands.

Rolls-Royces
1. A-A
2. K-K
3. Q-Q

These are the best of the best hands in NL Hold’em. All three of these hands are ones you can feel fairly confident going “all-in” before the flop. The odds will be on your side.

Mercedes
1. J-J
2. A-K suited
3. 10-10

You should feel good if you pick up any of these three hands. The chances of someone having something better before the flop are slim. Go ahead and put a good pre-flop raise out there. If you chase everyone off, so be it. But beware, the value of these hands can diminish depending on what the board yields. If over cards, pairs, flush or straight draws materialize, you need to protect your cards with a big raise, or fold and fight another day.

Cadillacs
1. A-K
2. A-Q suited
3. K-Q suited

These are good hands, but all three can be tricky to play. A pre-flop protection raise is a good way to play them. Keep your eyes open after the flop for draws and over cards. With A-Q suited, you have a lot of ways to make your hand, but be careful if just an ace comes out, someone may have A-K or two pair with the ace. The same applied to K-Q suited.

Chryslers
1. A-Q
2. 9-9
3. K-Q
4. A-J suited
5. 8-8
6. Q-J suited
7. J-10 suited

Some good hands need a little help. All of these hands are worth raising with, but they need a little bit of help to be really strong. For example, a pair of eights is in trouble if an over card comes out on the flop. But get a third eight and bingo-bongo-bango, to borrow a phrase from Mike Sexton.

Mustangs
1. K-Q
2. A-J
3. K-J
4. Q-J
5. 7-7
6. 6-6
7. 5-5
8. 4-4
9. 3-3
10. 2-2

Any of these hands can get better with just a little bit of luck. With the pairs, you are looking for three of a kind, or “trips”, to come out on the flop or you should be ready to ditch them if someone bets into you. The general rule with face cards is you want them to match up with other face cards in order to play them before the flop. In other words, Q-J is playable, while Q-6 is a hand that most players should fold.

Saturns
1. A-10
2. K-10
3. Q-10
4. J-10
5. A-9 suited
6. A-8 suited
7. A-7 suited
8. A-6 suited
9. 10-9 suited
10. 9-8 suited
11. J-9 suited
12. 8-7suited
13. 7-6 suited

Play these hands at your own risk. All can get really good in a hurry. But all of them can be worthless in a hurry as well. If you can get a cheap flop, all are worth hanging around to see if you hit a jackpot like a nut flush or a straight with the list of connectors.

The bottom line is have a plan. If you’re just starting out or playing in your first tournament, you might want to limit yourself to the top three categories on this list. As you feel more comfortable or as the field gets smaller, you could loosen up to include all of these hands. Only if you’ve found a pigeon at your table or if you’re down to heads up should you play many hands that you don’t see here.

Good luck and be careful out there.

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You should always consider 2 wins or 2 losses as the beginning of a trend. On the next wager you will act accordingly. This ensures you will never miss a trend no matter how short or how
long it may be.

Your wagers will take advantage of the trend no matter how short it is.

You will get chips of various denominations.

If you bet $5 chips, then you need $5 and $1 chips.
If you wager $25 chips, then also have plenty of $5 chips, and maybe even $1 depending on how accurate you want to be.

After 2 wins you will increase your wager by 1/3 of your last wager.

After 2 losses you will decrease your wager by 2/3 of your last wager. You will continue to decrease by 2/3 on each loss until you hit
table minimum.

In the typical chop trend, you expect a win after a loss, and a loss after a win. So after 1 loss, increase your wager by 1/3. After 1 win decrease your wager by 2/3.

Your first wager should always be 3 times the minimum bet when you first begin playing.

This is the basics of fractional wagering. There are many finer points, tricks and tips that I have developed over the years, but I have neither the time nor desire to go into that much detail.

This method of play is very successful on any of the even chance wagers in the casino. My preference is Blackjack, but I have used it successfully on bac and roulette.

You will not win large sums of money every time you play, but you will stay very close to even most of the time, lose very little when you lose, and you will occasionally win large sums when you hit the
inevitable win streak.

“After 2 wins you will increase your wager by 1/3 of your last wager. After 2 losses you will decrease your wager by 2/3 of your last wager. You will continue to decrease by 2/3 on each loss until you hit table minimum.”

You begin playing at anytime. 3 times the table minimum is your first bet.

You were close:

25 red / win / +25
25 red / win / +50 (2 wins so increase 1/3 to 33.00)
33 red / win / +83 (+1/3 now to 44.00)
44 red / loss / +39 (increase 1/3 looking for win after loss)
58 red / loss / -19 / (2 losses so decrease 2/3 to )
19 red / win / +0 / (after win look for loss decrease 2/3)
6 red / loss / -6 / (after loss look for win increase 1/3)
8 red / win / +2 / (after win look for loss decrease 2/3)
5 (assumes table min.) red / loss / -3

Hope that is more clear. I can tell you I have friends who tried to simulate it with negative result. But I have been playing it live forever and rarely have a losing session, and have never lost.

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Here is my ABC casino cash raker winning roulette system. During recent playing sessions I made well over 2k using only 10p and 20p units. The system is a consistent winner at the table. The method of play is really simple , we are playing a 12 number inside betting system based on repeating dozens , each dozen uses 4 small sectors of three numbers grouped as A B and C. Method of play – we don’t play until any group of 12 has not repeated in at least 4 spins then we start to bet from the fourth spin with the progression 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. 6. 9. 15.
An example , the last 5 spins show numbers 14. 22. 19. 8. 27. Looking at the groups these last five numbers seen spun are groups A C A B C , so we now are safe to start betting , starting from group C with the progression shown 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. 6. 9. 15. Always betting the last groups to hit throughout the progression, so in our example if when we bet on group C we are unlucky and a number in group A hits then the next bet will be all the numbers in group A, we are unlucky again and a number from group B hits then the next bet in the progression will be all the numbers in group B. etc etc.. In play the system rarely loses a progression although of course the longer you play the more chance there is of a freak session tugging your bankroll down. Groups cannot go long without a repeat so the odds are we can make profit consistently. Chances are you will win nearly all your sessions with profit.

1 14 20.
2 21 25. A
3 26 32.
4 15 19.

5 10 23
6 17 34. B
7 18 29.
8 11 30.

9 22 31
12 28 35 C
13 27 36
16 24 33

1 . 1. 2. 3. 4. 6. 9. 14. 21. Bet progression.

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