The fundament of every poker strategy relies on playing the right hands pre-flop, and paying the right price (outs) when drawing to outs post-flop.

You will make yourself vulnerable if you treat different pre-flop hands the same in different positions.

Texas Holdem Poker Hands Cheat Sheet (printable PDF version) Learning poker rules and hand rankings is the first thing you should do, and that can be much easier with the right poker cheat sheet at your disposal. Here you can see the poker hands cheat sheet and the list of best holdings to save it for later use if needed. Texas Holdem Poker Hand Rankings Cheat Sheet Also, before I get started with the poker strategy cheat sheet it is important that you know all of the poker hand rankings in Texas Holdem. This is because I will be discussing them frequently throughout this article. Check out our hand ranking cheat sheet, with which you will never doubt your hand strength. Odds and outs To explain odds and outs in a simple manner i tell you this: In poker, you have around 2% equity (chance of winning after the river) for every out you have.

In our suggested pre-flop starting hand charts we will show you hands that you can play from various positions in poker games.

The best is to only open-raise pre-flop, this prevents you to be easily readable as you would give tells if you limp and raise with different hands. Poker is complicated enough, let us not overcomplicate it.

• Printable PDF of all my hand rankings. This is an 8.5 x 11-inch PDF of every Hold’em hand strength chart I’ve calculated. I’ve also formatted it as a color-coded “heat map” so you can easily see which class any given hand is in by its cell color.
• Fourth in the poker hand rankings is the Full House. It is a combination of any three cards of the same numerical value and a pair of another value. When there’s multiple “Full House” hands, the one with the highest triplet wins.

On this page, we will hand you a poker cheat-sheet that guides you on which hands to play pre-flop, on odds and outs, and also, we will give you a poker hand ranking as an image which you can just copy to use it handily.

Check out our hand ranking cheat sheet, with which you will never doubt your hand strength.

To explain odds and outs in a simple manner i tell you this: In poker, you have around 2% equity (chance of winning after the river) for every out you have. Check the image (odds-table) below to see your equity and outs with different draws, and make a copy of it!

Now, we present you some advanced poker cheat sheets, ones that help you in finding the right pre-flop ranges when playing 6max and 9max tables in the no limit Texas hold’em variant.

Every hand on the chart that is marked yellow should be open-raised to optimally 2-3 big blinds.

ALWAYS open-raise with all your hands, unless you are in the small blind.

The hands in the “small blind pre-flop chart” that are green, you should limp, and the hands that are marked red, you should open-raise. Use an open-raise size of 2.5-4.5 big blinds depending on your stack-size in the small blind.

The charts below, you can use for cash games and sit and gos with no ante in play.

The game changes drastically when ante is in play, you should play many more hands given the added dead money. Taking this fact into consideration, we developed and designed two different pre-flop starting hand sheet sheets, and this one shows you your ranges when ante is in play.

Printable Poker Hand Ranking Chart

What are antes?

Printable Poker Hand Ranking Chart

Printable Poker Hand Rankings Chart From Highest To Lowest

Antes are forced bets that every player of the table has to pay in order to participate in the game. The ante usually costs 5-10% of the big blind and is generating a more aggressive game dynamic as there is more dead money to fight for. And This is increasing the relative value of playing a hand to folding.