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Starting hand (poker)

Also: Starting hands

Poker term

The two cards you are first dealt.

Hold'em has 169 types (13 pairs, 78 suited, 78 offsuit). They are laid out in a 13 × 13 grid: suited in the upper right, offsuit in the lower left, pairs on the diagonal.

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