Acknowledgements

Our starting hands list was created by careful inspection of what hands individuals such as David Sklansky, Lee Jones, Bill Chen, Edward Hutchison, and the people who created the Modified Sklansky List suggested playing and we went from there. Our list is not an exact duplicate of any one of those individuals but rather a hybrid of all of them (our true hybrid of their suggested starting hands lies in the 106 hands you should or should not fold, our list used their lists in combination with other starting hands lists in an attempt to cover all the bases from strongest hand on each individuals list to the worst hand they would limp in with.) Our concepts of which hands to raise with are based more on our own opinion rather than any one of their particular lists, as was moving A7 and A6 down to Late Position due to its lack of drawing power / winning with a proper top pair. Their lists served as our starting points, our foundation for which we tried to build the best possible starting list on our own opinion in the strength of hands. Some may match, and they match for obvious reasons. AA is of course going to be at the top of the list and 43 suited is going to be at the bottom of the list, those are no brainers. The small blind starting hands chart was designed without reference to any starting hands list as there are no (to our knowledge) starting hands lists for players in the small blind.

The Edward Hutchison starting hand charts found on our page were created using the Edward Hutchison Texas Hold Em System. The system itself is property of Mr. Hutchison and may only be used with his written permission.

The concept of betting patterns as tells and certain betting patterns on our list are from Lou Kreiger’s articles about betting patterns. He introduced us to the concept of checking on the river, slowplaying a monster, and opponents drawing to a free card. Other betting patterns such as the opponent on tilt we picked up randomly off poker message boards (we honestly don’t remember / know which boards or which members) whereas some we created on our own. Lou Kreiger deserves 100% of the credit for betting patterns being on this page though because if it weren’t for him we never really would have put a lot of thought into the concept, even though we know and have seen first hand that betting patterns are obvious tells as to what sort of hand your opponent is holding.

Our odds of catching particular flops came from all over the net. These odds seemed to be common on almost every other poker website yet no two websites seemed to ever hold the same numbers. As for the straight odds percentages those were derived and proven mathematically by an individual who uses the screen name Pyroxene on the Flop Turn River message board. His tireless efforts to teach others the math of odds in poker as well as give players the odds of catching straights on flops is commendable.

The hand matchup percentages  came from software we downloaded from Turning River. They have created a free program for players to calculate their pre flop, flop, or even on the turn odds with 1 all the way up to 9 opponents. This is the most useful piece of software we have found yet for calculating the percent odds that didn’t have to be calculated freehand. From what we can tell they developed the entire program in Flash. A link to this program can currently be found in our Calculators section. Another odds program that we will use on this site  was created by Tim Babb. This program will tell you the percentages of your hand making a specific hand (Full House, Flush, etc) based on the number of games you input. Again you can currently find a link for this program in our calculators section.