Natox
Enthusiast
Silver Level
Hey Vladimir,
starting hands should always depend on your Situation. For a rule of thumb, take hands with good postflop playability including high pocket pairs (AA, KK, QQ, JJ), strong suited cards like Ace-King (AK) and suited connectors (e.g., T9s), suited gappers (e.g., 97s), and suited high cards (e.g., K9s). These hands allow you to build strong hands and draw to straights and flushes, giving you more options to play on later streets.
Good luck,
Natox
starting hands should always depend on your Situation. For a rule of thumb, take hands with good postflop playability including high pocket pairs (AA, KK, QQ, JJ), strong suited cards like Ace-King (AK) and suited connectors (e.g., T9s), suited gappers (e.g., 97s), and suited high cards (e.g., K9s). These hands allow you to build strong hands and draw to straights and flushes, giving you more options to play on later streets.
Good luck,
Natox
dannystanks
Visionary
Silver Level
AA/KK. Everything else I can fold pre-flop if forced to call an all in or going all in generally, but this is going to depend on how many big blinds I have, how many opponents are in the hand, the table image of my opponent, where we are in the tournament, like is this the bubble, final table bubble, start of the tournament, ITM, etc. Good luck!