Everything You Need to Know About Hand Evaluations

Discussing hands with other players is a great way to take your game to the next level. We are giving you the opportunity to post hands you are unsure about and our professional hand evaluators will give you all the help you need.

What is hand evaluation?

Hand evaluation is a system which helps you improve your game by having your hands analysed. The process is simple:
- you submit your hand in our forum
- our hand evaluators will analyse them and give you feedback on your play

What is the benefit of having your hands evaluated?

The main benefit is that you get to see how a hand should be played from someone who is an expert in that area (our professional hand evaluators). The added benefit is that you get to see how fellow PokerStrategists would act in that same spot.

Why should I post in the hand evaluation forums?

In short: it will greatly improve your game. You will get opinions and advices from our coaches and forum members, and you will be able to interact with them to make sure you get the best answer.

Here's what our top hand evaluator veriz has to say about this topic:

Veriz

If you want to become good in poker you need to be able to receive feedback, especially the negative kind, whether it's posting your own hands or evaluating other members' hands.

If you get a negative evaluation, you will avoid this next time and try to prove yourself that you are able to play good poker. This goes as well for evaluating others hands - after you see a coach writing an evaluation, you can always compare with your own thoughts.

With videos/articles, you will be only able to watch/read them by yourself. But with hand judging you are always in some sort of group where you can discuss the hands with others.

 

Learn more about hand evaluations

How do I post a hand?

Learn more about posting a hand in our forum

Post your hand in our evaluation forums

Hand Evaluation Forums: Basic+
Game Type	Limits	Forum
No Limit BSS	up to $0.05/$0.10	Post your hands
No Limit MSS/SSS	up to $0.05/$0.10	Post your hands
Sit and Go	up to $5 buy-in	Post your hands
Multi-Table Tournaments	up to $11 buy-in	Post your hands
Fixed Limit	up to $0.25/$0.50	Post your hands
Omaha	up to $0.25/$0.50	Post your hands

Hand Evaluation Forums: Silver+
Game Type	Limits	Forum
No Limit BSS	up to $0.25/$0.50	Post your hands
No Limit MSS/SSS	up to $0.25/$0.50	Post your hands
Sit and Go	up to $21 buy-in	Post your hands
Multi-Table Tournaments	$11 buy-in and higher	Post your hands
Fixed Limit	up to $1/$2	Post your hands
Omaha	up to $0.25/$0.50	Post your hands

Hand Evaluation Forums: Gold+
Game Type	Limits	Forum
No Limit BSS	up to $1/$2	Post your hands
No Limit MSS/SSS	up to $1/$2	Post your hands
Sit and Go	up to $54 buy-in	Post your hands
Multi-Table Tournaments	$11 buy-in and higher	Post your hands
Fixed Limit	up to $0.25/$0.50	Post your hands
Omaha	over $0.50/$1	Post your hands

Hand Evaluation Forums: Platinum+
Game Type	Limits	Forum
No Limit BSS	up to $3/$6	Post your hands
No Limit MSS/SSS	$2/$4 and higher	Post your hands
Sit and Go	up to $119 buy-in	Post your hands
Multi-Table Tournaments	$11 buy-in and higher	Post your hands
Fixed Limit	up to $10/$20	Post your hands
Omaha	over $0.50/$1	Post your hands

Hand Evaluation Forums: Diamond
Game Type	Limits	Forum
No Limit BSS	$5/$10 and higher	Post your hands
No Limit MSS/SSS	$2/$4 and higher	Post your hands
Sit and Go	$119 buy-in and higher	Post your hands
Multi-Table Tournaments	$11 buy-in and higher	Post your hands
Fixed Limit	$15/$30 and higher	Post your hands
Omaha	over $0.50/$1	Post your hands