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I gamble too much during the game when I play Holdem
Its seductive. I'm a gambling addict, but at the same time I'm also a full time professional (losing) texas holdem player trying to make this profitable for me.
During the games I'm mindful in my ...
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Two players heads up in poker: what are roughly the odds of winning based on stack sizes?
While one might say, just take the ratios of the stacks so that if one player has twice the chips he should, especially when blinds are very large eliminating much of the skill factor, win the match ...
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when do you Bluff
bluffing is all about timing, what do you need to see to bluff. I use to do pre meditated bluffs, it would seem to me the table would tighten up so I would think "damn the torpedo's full speed ...
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What is the pot split in this scenario?
I'm trying to understand as many pot scenarios as I can, and this one is troubling me.
Can someone explain to me what would happen in this scenario?
If needed, increase the bet amount of Player 7 so ...
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Using magic at poker table table?
There is zero doubt and I have seen first person someone dealing seconds and doing forces that I totally could not detect even when it explained to me. Someone who understands how shuffling carefully ...
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Mucking cards with an all in side pot
I was playing in a cash game. here's how it played out. 4 players... flop came. I am first to act and go all in. The other 3 players call. They bet the turn and the river comes. Player next to ...
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Which type of two pair wins? [duplicate]
Evening,
I've got a question I've been wrecking my head about--namely which two pair wins when one has top and minimum pair while the other players has second and third pair.
To paint you a picture, ...
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Who wins in Texas hold 'em when the board has the best hand? [duplicate]
Scenarios that spring to mind are
The board has a Hearts royal flush: Nobody else has anything except one player has a 9 of hearts. Do they win because they have a straight flush?
The board has a ...
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Wild card game who calls the winning hand?
I have played in a private game for decades and it’s always been the players duty to call their hand. We use wild cards sometimes, Actually it’s not allowed for others to do. I know the “card speaks” ...
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What are the odds of having a Straight Flush on the turn vs a Royal Flush on the turn (No-Limit Texas Hold'em)?
I have J♤9◇
Villain has A◇8◇
Flop: T◇K◇Q◇
Turn: J◇
Straight Flush vs Royal Flush on Turn. Very interesting problem for some mathematical genius.
Anyone know the answer?
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Why do so many players immediately muck their cards when they think they won the hand?
When playing live, no matter cash games or tournaments, many players will muck their cards as soon as they think they won the pot. Of course most of the times they will be right and nothing happens ...
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Which hand wins? two full houses [duplicate]
I had pocket jacks, dealer flopped 3 sixes. I went all in and was called. My opponent had pocket sevens, another 7 flipped on the river. Who won?
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Omaha Poker: 3 of a kind using only 1 card [duplicate]
A game of Omaha poker where each player is dealt 4 cards and must use exactly 2 hole cards at shown down.
The table shows the following cards;
A 3 3 K Q
Player 1 has: 3 7 5 2
Can player 1 claim he has ...
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River got re-raised: call or fold?
1/3 NL holdem at a casino last week: I'm the BB with 3, 5, both diamond. 5 callers but no pre-flop raises (6 handed). Flop: Q, 8, 3 rainbow with the Q being diamond, pot $18. It gets checked all ...
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Two pair in hand vs two pair with table cards and one in hand [duplicate]
So streight to the point on table was (j,j,10,3,a) one had (10,3) second guy (a,6) so who would win?
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Is 8 / 9 better than 7 / 9 in terms of straight?
Is 8 / 9 better than 7 / 9 pre-flop in terms of straight? I know that 8 / 9 is better than 5 / 9 for example because chances are you can get a "top straight". But I'm not sure if 8 / 9 is ...
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Are antes (or other dead money) counted toward the rake?
Let's say there's a 5% rake and no rake cap (just to keep this simple). Five players are dealt in. Each player posts $4 ante, one player posts some small blind, and another player posts some big blind....
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Do any poker calculators use machine learning?
Are there any calculators that use machine learning behind the scenes or are the algorithms they use all well-known and understood in general?
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Mucked cards when missed player
Player 1 bets, player 2 is skipped, player 3 folds. Player 1 assumes win and puts cards face down. Player 2 realizes miss and calls. Player 1retrieves cards has best hand; who wins?
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How common is counterfeit money or chips at big games?
I do not know if the practice of using 100 dollar bills in bigger games is, but definitely in the 1990s/early 2000s I was in a decent-sized NL game during the WSOP and I was involved in pots in which ...
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Dealer reshuffles all remaining cards and the discards before flipping the river
This situation happened. There were three remaining players. One is all in. Two remaining players start a side pot. They look to the dealer to show the river. Problem is the dealer made a mistake, ...
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Dealer misdeal - How should the hand proceed?
Every now an than we are facing irregularities (not sure if they qualify as "Misdeals"), in our friendly cash Texas Holdem table.
I would like to know how to act in each of these occurrences:...
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Payout after loosing all in bet
9 position Hold em game pays top four positions. Four players remaining short stack goes all in looses. Does he still get payout?
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This is a probability question which will require an expert mathematician's expertise. Below is the criteria
Eight handed Texas Hold-em game using a 52 card deck.
This is a 3 1/2 hour session in which there were 105 hands of poker played.
One Individual achieved the following four poker hands.
A. Quad Eights
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Is online poker more technical than live poker?
Coming from this question about differentiation between technical and poker skills, I wonder if to know technical skills is fairly more close to be enough to be a winner in online than live poker.
Are ...
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When can the big blind see the hole hards?
Suppose we have a 6 players (A-F) playing Texas Hold'em with small blind and big blind and:
A - dealer for the current round
B - Small blind
C - Big blind
Can C view their hole cards as soon as they ...
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How to calculate the probability of flopping four of a kind with no pocket pair?
My hand is any 2 cards that do not have the same rank. What is the probability of flopping a four of a kind?
The formula I used is:
(2 c 1)(3 c 3) / (50 c 3)
c = chooses
2 c 1 - We have 2 ranks in ...
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Pokertracker HUD hides player stacks
Is there a way to avoid this?
It is not the same to open pot raise the cutoff if the button has 300BB than 75BB
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Resources to learn Poker Skills
In "Advanced Pot-Limit Omaha Volume I Small-Ball and Short-Handed Play" Jeff Hwang differenciates between technical skills and poker skills while describing the avilities of your oponnents.
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How to profit your Omaha knowledges against Holdem comming players in short-handed games
I started to play some Holdem but move to Omaha soon around ten years ago. I have played more than 250000 Omaha short handed 6-max hands while only some Holdem tournaments.
I now know I have been ...
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Do I have to raise or bet after going all in pre flop?
So I go all in preflop, after post flop when it is my turn, unable to check because there is a bet from previous player, does that mean I still have to call or raise?
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What are the odds (or how would I calculate the odds) of being dealt no ace in 10 hands, 20 hands and 30 hands?
As it says in the title...I just had 30 hands with no aces. What are the odds?
(standard NLHE I should add, not 5 card stud etc)
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Unpaired hand vs probability that the opponent has a pocket pair
My question is the following :
What is the probability of facing a pocket pair (preflop phase) with an off-suit hand?
I made some calculations considering a single adversary. I display them here.
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Should the button move if a player leaves the table in the blinds positions?
A friend told me yesterday in my club when a player leaves the table in the blinds positions, the button stays in the same position in order to maintain blinds order.
My concern is then a player has ...
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String of Quads on a well known online poker website
Are any of the popular online poker websites rigged for big hands and more table action than would actually happen with true random dealing?
I've played over 200,000 hands of NL Hold 'Em at a popular ...
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Is it legal to reveal your hand, one or 2 cards in Hold’em during the game? (Prior to showdown) [duplicate]
Say that there’s a big pot, after flop. One player hit a pair of aces with community cards. He feels vulnerable, hence SHOW his ace to the rest of the table, during the ongoing hand in order to scare ...
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Playing bottom two pair
I had played a $1-$2 nl game. I had a hand where I raised from late position. I was dealt 6♣ 7♣ and raised to $12. Only the small blind and big blind called me.
The flop came T♥ 6⋄ 7⋄ .
The small ...
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The approximate probability that the board will not have a cards for a possible straight for any player?
For example, board will be like:
A 2 6 J 9
No one player can't collect straight with their any two hand cards.
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I’ve got a question on this set we both have pairs [duplicate]
We are trying to figure out who won this. Right side because it has higher 2nd card since 1st are the same. Or
Is it left because the diamonds out in the cards?
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All in player mucks hand before runout
(2/5 cash) The hand is heads up to the flop and after the flop the action is all in, and call. After counting the amount of the all in the dealer begins to put the turn and river when the player who ...
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5nl: Did I just light money on fire by shoving AKs 178bb deep?
Hand history below. MP is 17/16 over 142 hands and I haven't seen him do anything very questionable yet at the table. SB has stats 37/11 over 20 hands. When the action comes back to me after MPs 4-bet ...
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How Exactly do GTO Programs Calculate Expected Value?
Suppose you have 6d7d on the button, and the flop is 7s5h4d, and the pot is 48.5 bb. Clearly, we have top pair, and the outs we have to improve our hand are 2 7's (for a three or four of a kind), 4 3'...
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Is this a good bluff-shove with AK on the flop?
I was playing a hand at 2/5 cents NL Hold'em online, and I was unsure about whether or not my thought process was good or not. I was in MP, the villain was small blind. I'm asking specifically with ...
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Mad Monk Theory (Unprediactable and Wreckless (but genius) Model)
I apologize, I'm not a math person, I am a Poker player. We all talk about Game Theory optimal play at the table, but one time I was talking to a wealthy business man who told me about a ...
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Germany: Online Poker still worth it in 2021?
I just recently got into poker.
Since I have not yet played for real money online, I wonder if that even is lucrative in 2021 in Germany due to the Glücksspielstaatsvertrag?
Not only are online ...
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Is there any rule for the structure of blinds in poker tournaments?
I am programming an app to help dealers of home games manage the tournaments or cash games.
I realize normally blinds double his value each time blinds are raised.
Is that some kind of rule?
Should I ...
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Should the add-on allways be the same amount of money than the rebuy?
In a tournament with rebuy and add-on, should the players pay the same amount of cash for the add-on than for the rebuy?
Is there any rule about it?
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What are the odds of getting the queen of hearts in one hand and a two of any other suit in another in five card draw poker
Given a standard 52 card deck, with 5 players in a five card draw poker game, one particular player ends up holding the queen of hearts while another particular player has a hand with a two, any suite,...
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How does a pair of Jack's beat pair kings [duplicate]
Was playing Texas Hold Em and I had a king and 7. I believe there was a king showing after the river, I made my bet then my opponent called me on it he had 2 jacks in his hand he won the pot.. How is ...
