We have now started to consider the medium strength poker hands. If your hole cards are made up of two cards both 10 or higher, you are widely considered to have a strong starting poker hand. 10-9 is therefore the strongest-medium hand! How best to play the 10-9 in order to maximise custom poker chip takings?

Regardless of position and whether the cards are suited or not, you should not be calling a raise with this hand otherwise you will lose more custom poker chips than you win in the long run. You should only be playing this poker hand when there are several limpers in the custom poker chip pot and you can get involved with the hand by merely calling. Once again, you are looking to hit the flop, otherwise you must get out if you want to go home with a custom poker chip profit. It may be worth calling a small raise from the blinds or the button, but only if the other poker players are average players. Even if you spike top pair, many poker players get their custom poker chips in with hands such as A-10, K-10, Q-10 even J-10 so your kicker is not going to help your case. Your kicker is much more important than you think, especially when playing with intelligent poker players!

The 8-7

You should never risk custom poker chips and play with this hand from early-middle position. If you have position and there are a few limpers, this position alters the strength of the poker hand and means that custom poker chips should perhaps be invested. This thinking should be applied to hands such as 7-6 and 9-8 as well. Save your custom poker chips, move on and wait for a stronger pair of hole cards. If your custom poker chip stack is very low, it may be worth investing your remaining custom poker chips in an attempt to double-up. However, this should only be tried as a last resort.

Again, it depends on the type of players you are gambling with. Are they loose poker players? If so, taking a stab at stealing the blinds from a late position may be worth the custom poker chip investment. If they are all tight, you should invariably throw away this hand unless you can limp in for a very small amount of custom poker chips. Remember the next deal is only a couple of minutes away!