Free tool
Starting hand quiz.
You're dealt a hand in a random seat and everyone before you folds. Raise or fold? You'll see the answer, the reason and the seat's full chart. Hands you miss come back until you get them.
Dealing…
Numbers make more sense at a table.Study the full chart
Questions people ask
- How does the quiz decide the right answer?
- It uses the same chart as the starting hand chart and the coach: each hand gets a Chen score, and each seat raises anything at or above its line (8 under the gun, 7 in the hijack, 6 in the cutoff and small blind, 5 on the button). Everything below the line is a fold when nobody has raised yet.
- Why do some hands keep coming up?
- Hands close to a seat's line come up more often, because those are the decisions people get wrong. Any hand you miss also comes back every third deal until you answer it right.
- Why is calling not an option?
- When everyone before you folds, good players raise the hands they want to play and fold the rest. Just calling the big blind (limping) invites everyone in cheaply and gives up the lead in the hand.
- Is there a keyboard shortcut?
- Yes: R or the right arrow raises, F or the left arrow folds, and Enter deals the next hand.
- Are these the only hands I should play?
- They're a solid, slightly tight starting point for a 6-handed table when nobody has raised. Against a raise, play fewer hands; against very passive players, you can open a few more.
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