Questions tagged [texas-hold-em]
Texas Hold'Em is a poker variant in which each player receives two cards (hole cards) that are dealt face down and then five community cards are dealt face-up by the dealer. All players may use their hole cards and the five community cards to make their best five-card poker high hand.
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Probability of getting 3 of a kind by at least the river (assuming unpaired hand)
Here's the question: Assuming an unpaired hand of 2 cards in poker (2 & 10, 3 & Q, NOT A&A), what is the probability of having 3 of a kind after all 5 community cards have been dealt?
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blinds 3000/6000 one player is allin for 4000 another raises 15000 all players fold the big and small blinds how much can the all in win
the blinds are 3000/6000 one player goes all in for 4000 another player raises to 15000 all other players fold including the big and small blinds. how much can the all in player win.
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Getting comfortable with GTO?
I've been studying GTO and such after years of playing without any formal training. I just at the point where I feel like I've learned enough to be dangerous, and am trying to apply my studies to ...
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What factors should you consider when flopping trips
I was recently at the casino and several times hit i.e. 10 X and flopped 10 10 X. I was having trouble finding calls when I raised either in or out of position, and if there was a straight or flush ...
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What are the odds to hit a straight with king queen pocket [duplicate]
The river is 9, jack, Ace. What are the odds that I would've hit the 10 I needed?
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How to name positions with less than 6 players?
I understand the NLHE positions nomenclature with full 6 seats poker table (sb, bb, utg, mp, co, btn) but what happens position-wise if at the 6 seat table there is less than 6 players?
Do we start to ...
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Should Hero call 3-way all in with flush draw?
6-max Cash game, 100BB deep
Hero holds A♥3♥
Goes 5-way to the flop, single raised for 3BB
FLOP: 6♣8♥T♥
SB bet 10 BB
BB folds
UTG raises 20BB
HJ folds
CO (Hero) calls
SB all in for 100BB
UTG all in ...
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What is your best laydown
this question is inspired by this question: What is the biggest WOW! moment you ever saw in poker? and is what are your personal best laydown stories? tell us about the best laydowns you ever made, ...
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Probability of one player making Royal Flush in a 6-person Texas Hold'em game
See also: Probability of two royal flushes' played in a row
One person making Royal Flush in Texas Hold'em with 5 community cards is 1 in 30,940. How about 6 players combined, assuming no one ...
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Dealer exposed three cards at the turn instead of one
Player 1 bets. Player 2 calls. All other players fold. Dealer burns 1 card and then deals the flop. Player 1 checks. Player 2 goes all in. Player 1 calls. Dealer burns 1 card and then in error, ...
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Is there any variation of Poker that force each player call the blind every hand?
I played poker for a while. Recently I visited my friend's home game playing hold'em forcing every player to call the blind every hand.
I'm living in a country where poker is not legist here.
Is there ...
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Flush confusion [duplicate]
In this scenario I want to know if it is a split pot or if my hand wins.
On the table is spade of KQ1063
My hand spade of A and 2 of diamond
Opponent 3 4 of Spade
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Texas holdem question [duplicate]
If the community cards are Q,,Q,10,10,2 and one players hold cards are a 2 how do you decide the winner if no other player can match any of the community cards?
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Online app seems to make too many top hands
The group I play with had been using the Pokerrr2 app for a coiple years. I believe the algorithm is set to force big showdowns.
The other night the app dealt two full houses and quads TO THE SAME ...
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with regards to TDA rules about reraise
we had a situation playing poker (home game)
SB: 5
BB: 10
Position 3: bets 50
Position 5: reraise to 250
Position 7: allin 500
question: Can position 5 reraise when its his turn?
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In this cash game, why did they 're-deal' the river?
Re Garrett Adelstein and Robbi Jade Lew, why do they 're-deal' or whatchamacallit the river from ace of spades to 9 of diamonds? See 4:16 onwards here. I've seen things like this in, say, blackjack, ...
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Weak Flush on Turn
What should the Hero do at this point on Turn?
How much to bet with for what purpose? Value or Protection?
How did you calculate that?
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Adjusting bet size post-flop on bets based on the player count or not?
While a lot of players prefer to play only their best hands pre-flop, in online games the fast-paced nature (and the occasional presence of multiple players playing loose) leads to an increased amount ...
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What did Garrett mean when asking about Robbi's Jack's being a club?
Re Garrett Adelstein and Robbi Jade Lew, Robbi says in this part 7:07 here Robbi hero calls Garrett with jack high on hustler casino live | weirdest poker hand
If my Jack wasn't a club, I would've ...
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Texas Hold Em: How did I lose this hand?
The board: Kclub, 5club, 2hearts, 3diamonds, 8diamonds.
Opponent: Adiamond, Jdiamond
Mine: Qdiamond, Kheart
Thanks in advance!
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accidentaly turning a card face up during the deal [duplicate]
In poker what if the first card to the last player is turned face up accidently, when does he get a replacement card? Can he be dealt back to back cards?
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Do you split a straight [duplicate]
If the board is showing a straight & you have the same straight using a card in your hand that is the same straight as the board… ex: Q J 10 9 8 on the board & you have a Q in your hand… who ...
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Who wins A,2,3,4,5 or 3,4,5,6,7 in Texas hold‘em? [duplicate]
Playing Texas hold‘em without 8 9 10.
The cards up are 2, 3, 4, 6, 7.
I have a A, 5 and the other person has a 5, J.
Who wins the straight?
The person with the Ace or the Jack?
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Why do so many top level play fold preflop in texas holdem?
I am a beginner in poker, but whenever I play poker with average people and somewhere around 6 players, they will fold about 20-40% of the time, usually with the mentality that few people raise ...
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Why is this hand the nuts?
In the book No Limit Hold 'em: Theory and Practice, at page 62, the author gives an example of a bad bluff during the 1979 World Series of Poker Main event. The cards on the table after the river are ...
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Who’s wins this pot?
To make a long hand short, 2 players are all in heads up,river comes Players 1 tables there cards and announces 2 pair, player 2 announce “he’s out” and tables his cards face up, a player not in the ...
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How to calculate win percentages during a showdown?
I've been trying to figure out how to calculate win percentages during a 2-3 hand showdown.
Up until now i know how to get to the percentages on the right side of the image (was taken from an online ...
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Greatest odds of winning with the worst hand
In a game of heads up Texas Hold'em, what hand has the highest odds of winning, while still holding the worst hand on the flop? For example, if I have KsJs, my opponent has 3d2h, and the flop comes ...
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What happens if two players reach the showdown and one of them is out of chips?
When there are two remaining players in Texas Holden, and one of them has gone all in on the turn, what happens if the other player calls and the river is dealt? There’s one player with no chips left ...
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How to exploit a group of tight aggressive players?
I'm a relatively new Poker player. Today I played online no-limit Texas Hold'em against 8 opponents. I don't think they are very strong players, because the stakes are small.
I noticed that most of ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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Please explain me the difference between stake & buy in and their correlation?
Say in a Texas Hold'em game lower stake is $1, upper stake $2, min buy in $40, max buy in $200. What these values mean & what is their correlation?
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Is online poker with fake money illegal?
In the United States, is it legal to play online poker games with play money as long as the winnings cannot be converted to cash or anything of value?
For example, if a user buys 10,000 chips with $5 ...
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For a table what is average pot?
In a java based poker application, I have to find out average pot.As per front end screen looks like this metric is in percentage. When a player wins, I know the pot amount. Could it be derived from ...
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Does 7 card poker hand odds change if i know 2 of the cards? If so how?
In Wikipedia, it shows that the Pair probability for 7-card poker hand is 43.8%.
After that 2 card is dealt to me, lets say Ace of Spades and 7 of Diamonds, does knowing these 2 cards effect the ...
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Two pairs two pairs win 🏆 [duplicate]
On the board is ( 2,2,5,3,3)
Player one has (Ace, 6)
Player two has (7,5)
Both players have a two pair who wins?