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The flop is a critical point in any hand of Texas Hold'em.  Together with the three community cards, the value of your hand can undergo sudden drastic changes. While you might have held a medicore hand pre-flop, you could be holding a monster on the flop. 

The flip side is that a previously strong hand might have turned into a medicore or even a trash hand on a particularly unfavorable flop. An important skill that every poker player should possess is the ability to quickly analyse flop situations, and to evaluate how his and his opponents' hands relate to the community cards. The flop texture plays a major role in this analysing process.

There are three main flop texture categories:

• Suitedness
  How many cards of the same suit (suited) does the board have? Are flush draws or is a made flush possible?
• Connectedness
  How many connected, or closely joined cards are there on the board? Are straight draws or made straights possible?
• High Cards
  How many high cards, picture cards, or aces are there on the board? High cards are played a lot. The more high community cards there are, the higher the chances that someone hits something.

First, you should evaluate the suitedness and connectedness of the board cards. The next important aspect is the number and rank of the high cards and pairs on the board.