Texas Hold'em cheat sheet

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Hand rankings

Royal flush › straight flush › four of a kind › full house › flush › straight › three of a kind › two pair › one pair › high card. A flush beats a straight. More on rankings.

Before the flop

Situation	Rule of thumb
Everyone folded to you	Raise to 2.5 big blinds (3 from the small blind) or fold. Do not limp.
Someone limped	Raise to 3.5 to 4 big blinds, plus one per extra limper.
Someone raised	Re-raise (3-bet) your best hands, call some good ones, fold the rest.
Your 3-bet size	3x the raise in position, 4x out of position.

Share of hands to open, six-handed: UTG 15%, hijack 20%, cutoff 26%, button 43%, small blind 35%. See the charts.

Pot odds

Equity you need to call Bet size (of the pot) → Equity you need to call

33% 19.9%

50% 25.0%

75% 30.0%

100% 33.3%

200% 40.0%

Outs

Draw	Outs	By the river (from the flop)	Next card only
Flush draw	9	35.0%	19.1%
Open-ended straight draw	8	31.5%	17.0%
Two overcards	6	24.1%	12.8%
Gutshot	4	16.5%	8.5%
Pocket pair to a set	2	8.4%	4.3%
Flush + open-ended	15	54.1%	31.9%

Quick rule: outs × 4 with two cards to come, outs × 2 with one. More on outs.

Bluffs

A bluff breaks even if it works: a third-pot bet 25% of the time, half-pot 33%, pot-sized 50%.

All-in matchups

Matchup	Roughly
Higher pair vs lower pair	80 / 20
Pair vs two higher cards	55 / 45
Pair vs one higher, one lower card	70 / 30
Dominated (AK vs AQ)	74 / 22, the rest ties
Two higher vs two lower cards	60 / 40

Bet sizes on the flop

Dry board (K♠7♦2♣): small, a third of the pot.
Wet board (J♥10♥8♣): bigger, two thirds or more.

Etiquette

Act in turn. Say your action. Never slow-roll. Be nice to the people you want to play with next week.