Revolutionize Your Poker Play with MayaGame’s Detailed Preflop Charts

In poker, your preflop decisions can make or break your game. Whether you’re new to the game or an experienced player, being able to make solid preflop choices is critical. At MayaGame, we’ve designed detailed preflop charts to help you make these decisions automatically and confidently.

Comprehensive Preflop Charts for All Situations

Our preflop charts serve as essential tools for understanding the best hand ranges to play in any position, stack size, or game type you encounter. Whether you’re in a short-handed cash game with a deep stack or navigating the final stages of a 9-handed tournament table with a few big blinds left, our charts guide you on the optimal hands to raise, call, or 3-bet with.

Why Use Preflop Charts?

Preflop charts are crucial for both beginners and advanced players. They provide clarity when making your first and most important decision: whether to play or fold a hand. Using these charts ensures that your decisions are based on the best available information for your specific situation.

Important Note: These charts are for educational purposes only. While you can study and memorize the charts, using them during an actual game, whether online or live, is considered cheating. Spend time studying the charts away from the table to maximize your learning.

How to Read MayaGame’s Preflop Charts

At MayaGame, we’ve simplified reading our charts to make them as intuitive as possible. Our charts feature:

1. Poker Hand Grid: This grid displays all the possible poker hands and indicates which hands you should play or fold. The highlighted hands in each range are the optimal ones to open, raise, or call with.
   
   
2. Position and Stack Size: Each chart is designed for specific positions (early, middle, late) and different stack depths (deep, medium, short).
   
   
3. Raise Sizes: The charts also indicate the ideal raise size to make depending on the hand and situation.
   
   

Once you familiarize yourself with the charts, making preflop decisions will become automatic, eliminating guesswork and improving your gameplay.

Understanding Hand Ranges

At MayaGame, we emphasize the importance of thinking in terms of hand ranges, just like elite poker players. A hand range is a collection of hands that you should play in a particular situation.

• Strong Hands: Premium hands like AA, KK, AK, AQ are always in the range, regardless of position.
  
  
• Bluffing Hands: Hands like suited connectors or suited aces are used to balance your range, allowing you to bluff effectively.
  
  

Your hand range will adjust depending on your position at the table. In late positions, you can play wider ranges, taking advantage of fewer players and the ability to steal blinds more often.

Common Starting Hands in MayaGame’s Preflop Charts

While hand ranges can vary based on position and stack size, some hands appear consistently across all preflop charts. These include top hands like:

• Pocket Pairs (e.g., AA, KK, QQ)
  
  
• Suited Broadways (e.g., KQs, AJs)
  
  
• Suited Aces (e.g., A5s, A2s)
  
  
• Suited Connectors (e.g., 65s, 87s)
  
  

For each position, you’ll see these hand categories and their rankings. For example, pocket pairs are played from most positions, but smaller pairs may be folded from early positions. As you move to later positions, you’ll notice a wider range of playable hands, like suited connectors and offsuit aces.

How to Use MayaGame’s Preflop Charts

Your preflop strategy forms the foundation for the rest of the hand. The decisions you make preflop will determine your success in the rest of the game.

Key preflop decisions include:

1. Which hands to raise with
   
   
2. Which hands to call with
   
   
3. Which hands to 3-bet with
   
   

MayaGame’s preflop charts outline the exact hand ranges for each of these actions, ensuring that your decisions are both optimal and profitable.

Tournament vs. Cash Game Play: Applying Preflop Charts

• Tournament Poker: Preflop decisions are crucial in tournaments, especially as stacks become shorter. Our tournament preflop charts help you with all-in strategies, opening ranges, and 3-betting with the right hands at different stages of the tournament.
  
  
• Cash Game Poker: In cash games, deep stacks mean more post-flop decisions. Our cash game preflop charts are designed to handle these deeper stack scenarios, providing you with optimal opening ranges and 3-betting guidelines.
  
  

Specialized GTO Preflop Charts

Game Theory Optimal (GTO) play has become a must-know for any serious poker player. MayaGame’s specialized GTO preflop charts help you play a balanced, optimal game that is tough to exploit by even the best players.

• Tournament GTO Preflop Charts: These charts offer a balanced approach for raises, calls, and 3-bets, based on GTO solver outputs. If you want to play a truly balanced game, these charts are your go-to resource.
  
  
• 6-Max GTO Preflop Charts: 6-Max cash games require a more aggressive and balanced strategy. Our GTO charts for 6-max games will teach you the best hand ranges for raising, 3-betting, and 4-betting from each position.
  
  
• Live Poker GTO Preflop Charts: Live poker often involves deeper stacks and slightly looser play. Our live poker GTO preflop charts take these factors into account, helping you dominate live games with ranges that work well in real-life settings.
  
  

Tips for Mastering Preflop Charts

When you’re first starting with MayaGame’s preflop charts, here are some tips to help you get the most out of them:

1. Remember Your Hand Ranges: Focus on memorizing the weakest hands in each range. These are your cutoff hands and can help you visualize the whole range quickly.
   
   
2. Adjust Based on Opponent Tendencies: Use the charts as a starting point, but adjust based on your opponents. If players in the blinds are folding too much, expand your range. Conversely, tighten up if you’re facing loose players who are more likely to 3-bet.
   
   

Why You Should Use MayaGame’s Preflop Charts

MayaGame’s preflop charts are one of the most powerful tools you can use to improve your poker game. Whether you’re a beginner or an advanced player, using these charts will help you make the best decisions preflop, giving you a solid foundation for your overall poker strategy.

Start learning and applying the charts for different stack sizes, and with practice, you’ll quickly see an improvement in your poker results. The more you study and internalize the charts, the better your preflop decisions will become — and your win rate will follow.

Unlock your full poker potential today with MayaGame’s comprehensive preflop charts.