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At pokerlistings.com, there are a number of very useful articles for the up and coming poker player, to assist him in honing his poker strategy. One of the most important Hold’em strategies that is taught is one of the most simplest, and yet most easily ignored: play fewer poker hands. Every time a player chooses to play his poker hand, he is risking some of his money on the bet that he will be able to earn it back with his winnings, but too often in Hold’em, the poker hand a player is likely to have simply isn’t good enough to justify any bet. Part of learning poker involves learning which poker hands to let go, and which poker hands to play through to conclusion. In Texas Hold’em, this becomes something of a simpler prospect, if only because you have only two cards in your hand. This means that there are a total of 169 poker hands in Texas Hold’em, and out of those there are relatively few that are genuinely, consistently good and worth betting on. Pokerlistings.com describes fifteen hands that a player should consider playing, and goes on to suggest that all other poker hands should be abandoned. Obviously, situational elements do play a role, as there might be other hands that are worth playing, or other players could have folded or raised, which would change which poker hands are worth the risk of playing, but in general, the number of poker hands worth playing would remain fairly small; a player should fold poker hands much more often than he or she plays them.