Ultimate Texas Hold'em Pre-Flop Chart: When to Raise 4×
Before the flop in Ultimate Texas Hold'em you can raise 4×, raise 3× or check. The grid below shows the exact best play for every starting hand.
69 of the 169 hands raise 4×, about 38% of the hands you are dealt. Everything else checks.
Never raise 3×
Not one hand prefers 3×. If a hand is worth putting money in before the flop, it is worth the maximum: the extra unit wins more often than it loses. If it is not worth 4×, checking keeps the option to bet 2× after the flop for free.
The pattern
- Any pair from 3s up raises 4×. Pocket 2s check.
- Any ace raises 4×, suited or not.
- King: any suited card, or offsuit with a 5 or better.
- Queen: suited with a 6 or better, offsuit with an 8 or better.
- Jack: suited with an 8 or better, offsuit only with a 10.
- Nothing else. No hand without an ace, king, queen or jack raises, however connected.
Every hand that raises 4×
AA, AKs, AQs, AJs, ATs, A9s, A8s, A7s, A6s, A5s, A4s, A3s, A2s, AKo, KK, KQs, KJs, KTs, K9s, K8s, K7s, K6s, K5s, K4s, K3s, K2s, AQo, KQo, QQ, QJs, QTs, Q9s, Q8s, Q7s, Q6s, AJo, KJo, QJo, JJ, JTs, J9s, J8s, ATo, KTo, QTo, JTo, TT, A9o, K9o, Q9o, 99, A8o, K8o, Q8o, 88, A7o, K7o, 77, A6o, K6o, 66, A5o, K5o, 55, A4o, 44, A3o, 33, A2o (T is a ten, s suited, o offsuit).
Every cell comes from the app's exact pre-flop table: each hand was played out against every flop, turn, river and dealer hand, with the flop and river decisions made optimally too.
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