Computational mathematics for understanding odds and other playing percentages
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Quantifying the amount of luck required to win a tournament
If we disregard deals, players accidentally mucking winning hands, and time-limited tournaments, in order to win a poker tournament, you must win the very last hand of the tournament. In order to win ...
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Quantifying the amount of skill required to win a tournament
I was thinking about this topic: Quantifying the amount of luck required to win a tournament And I wondered if there is a way to quantify the relation between skill and final place.
It's seems hard ...
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Do two or more players colluding against honest players gain on average more money, or not?
Lets say we have two or more players that collude together playing online poker against honest players. They have an obvious advantage of knowing about more cards that are in the play than they ...
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How to learn a new poker game ?
I wanted to know what are the steps you take in order to learn a new game.
I am not talking about the basic rules; more on the strategies and statistics of the game.
I always start playing the "play ...
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What is top N% of hands in PokerStove?
In PokerStove FAQ;
The slider interface for setting the top N% of hands orders the hands
according to their preflop all-in equity versus three random hands.
This rather arbitrary selection was ...
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Publicly available poker stats
Are there any sources of poker hands, including how they play out with betting etc... I am imagining the log files of some poker site somewhere.
I am looking for complete hand histories - and ...
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Texas Hold'em: Heads up pre-flop probabilities
Has anyone calculated the probabilities of winning/losing heads up matchups of all combinations of two players preflop hands in Texas Hold'em, and if so, can they provide a reference?
I could write ...
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Online play analysis software
What software would you recommend for analyzing one's game? I'm talking detailed number-crunching after the session, not online databases like sharkscope or in-game odds calculators (meh).
Is there ...
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Minimum number of hands required to establish a conclusion about win-rate?
What is minimum number of hands required to establish a conclusion about win-rate at particular level (10NLHE, 30NLHE, etc)?
e.g. You can play 1000 hands and have a win-rate of 53bb/100 but that is ...
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Optimal Win Rate Standard Deviation
I've been tracking my live sessions for some time now. After 35 sessions (about four hours a session) my win rate is 34.42 an hour. My win rate standard deviation is 157.67. This seems high to me. ...
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Over the long term, how often will AA lose a hand? [closed]
On average, how often would a pair of aces win a hand?
I dealt at a fairly large hold-em tournament last weekend, and 4 of 5 times AA was shown the hand lost. The one time it won it was because a ...
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How does a wild card (53rd) affect the odds of making the standard poker hands?
By standard poker hands I mean:
high card
one pair
two pair
three of a kind
straight
flush
full house
four of a kind
straight flush
EDIT: five of a kind
I'm curious if the ranking of hands should ...
