Starting hand charts?

[KiterB]

Hello,

I don't understand the starting hand charts for 100%
For example: I'm sitting in the position after the firts blind, so in early position.
My cards are AK. -> group B.
So, first position is after the blind, I look in the "UNRAISED" chart.
I find Group B is in "Opening Rase" and "Call a Reraise".
What does it mean?
So I Open a raise. (Unraise chart) Then, a player behind me re-raise it. Then what?
I've to see in the "Raised chart" for group B? Or in the same chart and "Call the raise"?

Another example:

My cards, AQ -> group D, middle position.
Unraised, group D, I open a raise... Then behind me a player re-raise.
When I look then in the Raised chart, D is not there. Then fold?
First raise and then fold or?

It is not clear to me.

Thanks!

[The Professor]

Originally Posted by KiterB

Hello,

For example: I'm sitting in the position after the firts blind, so in early position.
My cards are AK. -> group B.
So, first position is after the blind, I look in the "UNRAISED" chart.
I find Group B is in "Opening Rase" and "Call a Reraise".
What does it mean?
So I Open a raise. (Unraise chart) Then, a player behind me re-raise it. Then what?
I've to see in the "Raised chart" for group B? Or in the same chart and "Call the raise"?

You stick with the same Unraised chart - if you make a raise and then you are re-raised you need to look at the 2 lines below to see which action to take.

So you are looking at the line "Call a Reraise" and "Raise a Reraise"

In this situation you have AK in early position so we look where a group B hand is on either "Call a Reraise" or "Raise a Reraise" and it is infact on the "Call a Reraise" line for early position - so in this situation you would call the re-raise.

Another example:

My cards, AQ -> group D, middle position.
Unraised, group D, I open a raise... Then behind me a player re-raise.
When I look then in the Raised chart, D is not there. Then fold?
First raise and then fold or?

It is not clear to me.

Yes you are correct - AQ is a group D hand and after you have raised and someone has re-raised then AQ isn't actually that strong, and it doesn't appear in either the "Call a Reraise" or "Raise a Reraise" lines so you would infact fold here.

Hope that helps.

[KiterB]

Thank you very match!
The only difficult thing is wait for the good starthands!

[catanner]

No kidding. The waiting is the number one reason most novices (including me) lose their bankrolls. It took me some time and a lot of reading to get to my current level, which is novice (as opposed to total sucker).

[boony]

Hi, I'm just trying to get my head around these charts too and have the following question.

Assume I get dealt AA pre-flop and I'm mid position and someone has raised before me.

I re-raise.

What do I do if I'm re-raised? Do I re-raise a second time?

[Zimmah]

with AA (best possible hand pre-flop) i always raise (or re-raise) pre-flop, no matter how high i have to raise or re-raise.

after a missed flop, it depends a lot more on the situation

statisticly, it's always the best thing to get as much money in as possible when you have a killer hand like AA AKs or KK (however i think AKs and AK are dangerous hands, cuz if you miss them, you have nothing)