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PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
TEXAS HOLD’EM POKER STRATEGY CARDS
Learn how to correct the single biggest mistake made by Texas Hold’em players.
Seattle, WA, May 1, 2006 – Texas Hold’em Poker is considered by many experts to be the purest form of Poker. It’s an easy game to learn, but a hard one to master. Time and time again, beginners and intermediate players break the cardinal rule of Texas by staying in a pot with mediocre (or poor) hands.
GreatPokerHands.com is pleased to announce that it is now selling a unique strategy card systemthat provides players an easy to use reference guide for instantly deducing the strength ofopening poker hands.
When playing Texas Hold’em Poker, each player receives a secret pair of “hold” cards and these are combined with up to five common “community” cards to make the best possible poker hand. Players bet against each other that they have the best ranked hand overall.
What is not immediately obvious is that the value of player’shold cards changes with the number of opponents who are also in the pot.The more people that stay into a pot, the higher the average quality of the hand needed to win becomes, and so correspondingly, the desired qualities of the hold cards change to those more likely to produce higher quality hands. If you are playing “head to head”, a high card or pair may, more often that not, seal a victory for you. However, as the number of players in the pot increases, typically a straight, flush, or higher handis needed to win against all the players staying in. This critical fact adjusts which starting hold cards are considered good starting hands, and which are considered great.
With just a couple of opponents, having an ace with anything, or a reasonable pair, is mathematically a pretty good hand; Your pair may remain dominant, or your ace may remain the high card (or even get paired up). With a small number of opponents, whilehaving your hold cards of the same suit is, of course, better than having the same cards non-suited (because of the increased chance of making a flush), the sensitivity to the suit is not as important with smaller numbers of players, as the chance that a flush is needed to win is low. Similarly for “connected” cards (cards that are numerically adjacent so they could form a possible straight).As the number of players in the pot increases, and thus the typical hand required to win increases, the importance of suited and connected hold cards becomes increasingly more dominant. When there are many people in a pot, hold cards that offer straight and flush drawing possibilities become increasingly more valuable to hold.
The GreatPokerHands system comprises a set of strategy cards. Each card hosts a grid of all 169 possible starting hold card combinations (representing each combination of starting cards, both suited and unsuited). There is one strategy card for each number of opponents up to ten. Each card shows the ordinal ranking of the starting hands – a stack ranking, with #1 indicating the best possible set of starting cards to be holding, all the way down to #169 for the worst possible starting pair of cards. Each card is rainbow color coded to show at the glance the; Great, Good, Okay, Dubious and Inferior starting hands.
Most poker players know a story about a player who stayed in a Texas game with a poor hand such as two-seven off suit, only to be blessed by a magical flop of sevens and twos to make a full house and a victory. Does this mean that two-seven offsuit is a great hand? Clearly not. If the hand described above were played again (and again, and again …), how many times would the player holding two-seven be victorious? (Answer: Not many!)
The GreatPokerHands strategycards were produced with the above methodology. Starting with every possible combination of hold cards, using a computer program, hundreds of millions of hands of poker were dealt. For each set of starting cards, the number of times that the starting hand would have won (or drawn), was recorded. All of these results were then collated, sorted and ranked.
We return to the cardinal rule in Texas, which is not to enter too many pots. It’s all too tempting to stay into a pot with a hope that your hand will improve with the flop, turn or river (the community cards), but with these strategy guide,players will come to the table with the benefit of having their exact situationalready having been played and replayed hundreds of millions of times and the results of these games displayed to help them make the right call.
If these cards stop you from entering just one pot that you should have backed away from, then they will probably have saved you their purchase price in a single hand!
The strategy card system is available for purchase today from the website . Each set of cards is supplied in handy carry sleeve and is sold with complete instructions. The price of a card set is $20.00 (or $25.00 for two sets)[1]. Shipping and handling is free for all domestic orders.
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About GreatPokerHands.com
GreatPokerHands.com was founded in 2006 by Nick Berry, a genuine rocket scientist. Nick holds a Masters Degree is Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from the University of Southampton in England. He has over a dozen years experience working in the software industry, and over eight years experience in the computer games arena. He has a handful of patents in his name.
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[1] Residents of WA State will need to pay appropriate sales tax.