This is relatively easy to do in Texas Hold’em.
You’ll have to judge your hole cards by how promising they are – we’ll get to that later on with our online poker tips for “starting hands.” Then, once the flop comes, you have to mentally arrange those three community cards with your hole cards and see not only what your best 5-card hand is right now, but also how your hand might improve on the turn and river.
When you’re playing any of the three flop games at Bovada Poker (Texas Hold’em, Omaha and Omaha Hi/Lo), you’ll be starting with either two or four hole cards, so you won’t have a full 5-card poker hand until the community cards are dealt. Two cards of the same rank, plus two cards both of another rankĪny five cards that don’t fall into the above categories Three cards of the same rank (also known as a set when using two hole cards, or trips when using one hole card) Three cards of the same rank, plus two cards both of another rank (also known as a boat) Royal FlushĪce-King-Queen-Jack-Ten, all of the same suitįive consecutive cards, all of the same suitįour cards of the same rank (also known as quads)
