Texas Hold'Em is a community-card poker variant in which each player receives 2 down cards. A flop of 3 cards is dealt face up, followed by a single face-up card (the turn), and a final face-up card (the river). The best 5 card poker hand, using any of the player's 2 cards and the 5 community ...
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Looking for the BB/M math to build good NLHE Tourney Blind Structures
I'm running a home game and I want to better design NLHE Tourney Blind Structures.
So far the auto generators I've found either bias slow build up or long tourney times.
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Minimum re-raise in Hold em
What is the minimum re-raise in Texas hold em? I have heard both that you need to double the previous bet and that the minimum raise is the big blind. Which is it?
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Classic Books for Texas Hold'Em
What are the classic books for learning Texas Hold'Em, off- or online? Books that every good player should, at least, know the gist of?
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What is the“Top Five Cards” rule and how does it apply to splitting pots?
Before you answer the question I will give a scenario that confused me thus prompting this question. The other week I was playing a game and we had this scenario :
8 players - down to me and a pal ...
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Effect of number of players in the probability distribution of poker hands
We have this official rank of hands.
I have a theory (which I do not know how to prove) that the number of players in a texas-hold-em table will affect the probability distribution of the hands.
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Heads Up NL Holdem: Best strategy against all in every hand
Assume you are playing a NL Holdem tournament heads up. What is the best strategy against these all-in scenarios, and what is the expected win percentage when implementing the best strategy against ...
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Why do people make the following call, check, call round the table?
I play in a work tournament usually 2 tables of 6 or 7 for a set time period with the top 3 chip counts on each table moving to a final table to win the prize.
It is largely amateurish but with ...
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Most common freerolling situations in holdem?
Player1 K♣T♣
Player2 K♥T♥
Board is A♣ Q♦ J♥ 4♣
This one is most common, what are the few others(most common)?
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Handling “running it twice” situations
When players agree to "run it twice" (or more times), should any additional cards be burned before each replayed step?
Also, shouldn't the cards turned in the first run be shuffled back into the deck ...
