I took inspiration from the Chen formula article at (no longer active) to create this starting hand strategy. The starting hand requirements are also a little tight, but that’s only to be expected if you’re using a guide and you haven’t quite found your feet when it comes to starting hand selection yet. Most of the strategy involves either raising or folding preflop, which is a solid approach to take as a new player and a style that you will grow accustomed to as your game progresses. However, I like to think that this is an easy-to-use and solid preflop strategy using the Chen formula. About my Chen formula starting hand strategy.Īs with any set of rules or guidelines in poker, this Chen formula starting hand strategy isn’t perfect and will have it’s flaws.
"Fold" = Fold regardless if there has been a raise before you or not. "Raise" = Raise if there have been no raises or calls before you. (6 players) Early position.įull-ring strategy. Always raise or reraise with 12 points or more.Only ever consider calling a raise with 10 points or more.Therefore, I have done a little bit of work and created a starting hand strategy using the Chen formula. That's all well and good for helping you to compare the strength of different starting hand in Hold'em, but it doesn't really do much in the way of strategy for starting hand selection. The main reason behind using the Chen formula for different starting hands was so that you can categorize them based on the Sklansky and Malmuth hand groups table. So now we know how to work out how many points different hands are worth, what can we do with the numbers to help us with starting hand selection? Using Chen formula hand points. 0 - 1 card gap, both cards under Q = +1 point.Subtracting 1 point for 1 gap and then adding it back again for lower cards seems a bit awkward I know, but that’s the way it works. 7.5 rounds up to 8)įor step 5, it’s easier to refer to this extra 1 point as a "straight bonus" to save confusion between steps 4 and 5. JT, 75, 32 etc, this bonus point does not apply to pocket pairs) Add 1 point if there is a 0 or 1 card gap and both cards are lower than a Q.(Aces are high this step, so hands like A2, A3 etc.
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