As I told you a prior article, some positions at the table are better than others. Because of that you should play very few hands in the bad positions at the table, and a lot of hands at the good positions. The button and the cutoff are very good positions, and as you can see from the hand listing below we will play a lot of hands in these positions. I suggest you always come in raising when you are the first person to enter a pot, make a 4 times the big blind raise. Limping in is almost never a good idea in 6 max No Limit Holdem, I never do it at all.

When it says “s” behind a hand it means it is only the suited version, “o” means off-suit and nothing behind means both versions. I’ve taken into consideration that you are a fairly new player when making this list of hands to play, once you get more experienced you can play a few more hands, especially suited connectors. I also don’t recommend calling much, the reason to call with all your pairs is to hit 3 of a kind on the flop, this is also called a set. First in means that there are only limpers or people folding in front of you.

Under the Gun.(UTG)
First in: Raise Any pocket pair, AK, AQ, AJ, KQs.

Middle position.(MP)
First in: All UTG hands + KQ.
With raise in front: Call All pairs and AQ. Reraise with QQ+ and AK.

Cutoff.(CO)
First in: All MP hands + AT, A9, A8s, A7s, KJ, KT, QJ, QTs, JT, J9s, T9s.
With raise in front: Call all pairs and AQ. Reraise with JJ+ and AK.

Button.(BTN)
First in: All CO hands + All suited aces, A7o and higher, suited connectors down to 67s, offsuit connectors down to 78o, suited 1gaps down to T8s.
Raise in front: Call all pairs, KQ, KJs, JTs, AQ and AJ. Reraise JJ+ and AK.

Small blind.(SB)
First in: If it’s folded to you, you can raise any hand you would normally raise from BTN.
Raise in front: Call all pairs, KQ, KJs, JTs, AQ, AJ, ATs. Reraise JJ+ and AK.

Big blind.(BB)
First in: JJ+ and AK with limpers, if it’s folded to the SB who limps, raise any hand you would raise on the button.
Raise in front: Call all pairs, KQ, KJs, JTs, AQ and AJ. Reraise JJ+ and AK.

Now it’s time to read about flop play.