Tournament Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
The low hand is evaluated by the rank of its highest card;
The low hand is evaluated by the rank of its highest card; if there is a tie between highest cards, by the rank of its second card, etc. The value of the lowest card is irrelevant to the hand's value except when on the showdown the four higher cards are exactly matched by another player's. Example: A mixed-suit hand such as nine, seven, six, five and three, being a nine low, would beat a mixed-suit nine low with nine, eight, six, five and three. To repeat, the lowest-ranking perfect low hand, known as a cinch hand, is the six, four, three, two, and ace in mixed suits. In the following table are listed the best twenty low hands in Poker. These are mixed suits, of course. And any hand in a superior rank beats any hand listed below it.
The ranks of the low hands in Poker
The ranks of the low hands in Poker as stated above hold true for all Low and High-Low Poker games found in this book unless specified to the contrary in the game being described. Examples: Lowball where a "bicycle" (5-4-3-2-A) is the best low hand, and at Seven to Deuce Low Poker where 7-5-4-3-2 is the unbeatable hand.