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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How to determine the winning hands in poker?
It seems especially to newer players that what constitutes a winning hand, what the best five cards are, can be confusing. So exactly what hand is the winner and why does it win?
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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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What is the min-raise and min-reraise in Holdem No Limit?
When I play with friends live poker we always ask ourself what are the min-raise and min-reraise rules in Holdem No Limit?
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Calculating Poker Outs
Hi this is probably going to seem like a dumb question but I don't fully understand how you calculate outs and feel I must be missing something.
Say I have 2⋄ 2♣ and the flop is 4&...
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Heads-up river, first to show mucks. Does second player have to show to win pot?
Situation in NLHE tournament: One player was betting on heads up river and got called. He mucked his hand and said "The pot is yours." Does the second player have to show his hand to claim the pot?
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No-Limit Holdem Partial Raise Clarification
Referencing the following from this link http://www.rgpfaq.com/no-limit.html
Now let us consider when a player has gone all in with a partial raise. Other players may not reraise on a player's all ...
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How to deal with a table that always calls?
In my no-limit Texas hold'em home games, players are allotted approximately $2500 worth of chips. The starting blinds are $5/$10, and are increased everytime the button has moved around the whole ...
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What is the minimum raise after an all-in?
I am hosting a home game (NL Texas Hold'em sit N go), and would like to make sure we get all the rules right, but there is one situation that I'm having trouble with. What is the minimum raise after ...
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Probability of x pocket pairs at a table of n people (NLHE)?
With n people at a table, what is the probability that x of them are dealt pocket pairs? There are several easy ways to approximate this but I was wondering there was an elegant solution. Any takers?
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Four to a flush with suited hand and two community cards, opponent raises, what to do?
I had two suited hole cards in a nine-handed cash game, 50 chips entrance.
The flop opened up with two more cards of the same suit, meaning I had four cards to a flush. My opponent raised six on the ...
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What are best books, programes and sites to improve Texas Hold'em (Limit and No Limit) skills? [closed]
What are best computer programes and web sites one should use to upgrade Texas Hold'em (Limit and No Limit) skills? There are thousands of books, hundreds of web pages a many programes to teach poker. ...
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Is online poker legal or not in the United States ?
I am just starting to learn Texas holdem, and I've heard that online poker is not legal, and also that it is. Which is it?
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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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What are the odds I will hit my flush? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What can I do to calculate my odds in a hand?
If I have 2 cards of the same suit in the hole, and 2 board cards with those suits on the flop, what are the chances that I will ...
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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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Do I have to show my hand in an "All-In" situation?
This question is concerning Texas Hold'Em rules.
If my opponent goes "All-In" and I call with more chips than he does, do I immediately show my cards?
During a recent game, my opponent called "All-...
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Do all players have to show their hand if they check on the river?
I've noticed in a few Poker apps that they show all the cards on a final checked or called round.
What is the law regarding mucking cards in this situation? This answer suggests everyone must show, ...
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Side pot rules on not equal hands
I've played Texas Hold'em and came to next situation. This were the community cards (I can't remember the cards but this was more or less the situation):
7♠K♦A♦9♦6♣
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Am I obligated to show my cards if I get called and we go to showdown?
There are two players left after the river card has been delt. Player 1 bets and player 2 calls. Does player 1 HAVE to show his cards, since it's HIS turn and he got CALLED, or is he allowed to muck ...
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Card flip on deal. Misdeal or next card?
Blinds are out, dealer begins to deal. First card to the big blind catches air and flips. One player says it's a complete misdeal, because the flipped card is going to the big blind. Is that the ...
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Obliged to show cards after post-river out-of-turn reveal?
We are playing a cash-game of Texas Holdem:
Let's say the river has just been revealed, and the final round of betting has completed.
On the table we have: A, K, 6, 7, 10
I'm the last to raise, and ...
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Complete all-in rules of fixed-limit hold-em
I have been having a hard time finding the full rules of fixed-limit poker pertaining to all-ins.
For example,
Scenario #1:
Fixed bet size of $20, capped at 4 bets.
Player 1 bets all-in for $5.
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Chance formula for Texas Hold'em
Is there any general formula to calculate how many chances you have to win a particular poker hand?
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What is minimum raise when starting a new round of betting in NLHE?
Generally speaking what is the minimum raise amount after a new card is dealt in No-Limit Texas Hold 'em?
Examples:
Pre-Flop. Small Blind $1, Big Blind $2. Everybody calls.
Post-flop. Is the ...
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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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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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Why did I lose this hand?
I was playing hold 'em and there was a show down.
The board was:
K:diamonds: 2:diamonds: J:diamonds: 8:diamonds: 6:diamonds:
My opponent had:
9:diamonds: T:diamonds:
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When to fold AA pre-flop?
Let's simplify the situation:
you have pocket aces (AA)
cash game
all players but one have folded (heads-up)
the remaining player goes all-in.
we are pre-flop
Is there a situation where folding ...
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Who has advantage if one player is known to have an Ace?
Suppose that in a Texas hold'em heads up both player 1 and 2 know from the beginning that player 1 has an Ace.
(This cannot happen in a normal game, of course.)
Who has an advantage, player 1, since ...
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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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What happens if the card wasn't burned?
I understand the purpose of burning the cards - so that one cannot possibly use any marks to see the next card in deck. But in home games, sometimes the dealer will forget to burn a card on the flop, ...
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Short stack play - best way to deal with it?
Short stack play - the extreme measures/adaptive game-plan a
short-stacked player will undertake to stay in the game.
The characteristics of this effect/game-plan tends to include higher levels of ...
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What are the odds of having 2 Quads in the same hand?
Just watched a video that went as follows:
Player 1 (Button): Q♥Q♠
Player 2: 9♥9⋄
Player 3: 2♣2♠
Flop: Q⋄9♠Q♣
Turn: 5♠
River: 9&...
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Set Mining: betting pre flop with 22+
When I set mine I usually raise pre flop with my pocket pair to build a large pot.
I use the 10 to 1 rule for stack size to bet ratio when calling with a small pocket pair, but when you're raising ...
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How to maximize expectation with pocket aces and an Aces Cracked bonus running
I was playing $3-$6 Limit live Texas Hold'em and there was a $200 Aces Cracked bonus running - meaning if you have pocket Aces and lose, you get $200. The house rake is pretty steep - $3 per hand + $...
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Tricky Tournament Bubble Situation
How (and why) do you play this hand as big stack on the bubble of a short-handed SNG? All players are reasonably skilled. BB has played pretty tight in the previous ~100 hands this tournament, and in ...
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How to play when you hit a straight
I was playing following hand recently:
iPoker - €0.04 NL - Holdem - 4 players
BTN: 78 BB (VPIP: 63.33, PFR: 6.67, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 30)
SB: 42.25 BB (VPIP: 33.33, PFR: 9.09, 3Bet Preflop: 0....
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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 ...
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Interactive texas holdem learning
Could you advise a site to learn Texas Hold'em, interactively?
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Mathematically speaking, is open-limping that bad?
I do not limp, well in some rare situations I do but that's not the question. I would like to know why limping is bad mathematicaly speaking. There are many responses to the "limping is bad" question ...
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What happens if the last two live players fold at the same time?
In a no-limit hold em cash game, only two players remain live in the hand. Who claims the pot if both of these players muck their cards simultaneously?
There are no verbal declarations - both players ...
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Probability of flopping straight flush
Assume you're given 2 cards of the same suit, and the next three cards (flop) are also the same suit as your hole cards. What is the probability of that happening?
So I figured out that 2 cards have ...
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How to mathematically calculate equity
I am wondering how to mathematically calculate equities in equity based poker variants( holdem, omaha, Stud ect).
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Which hand wins: 23 vs. 9J on a AAKKQ board? [duplicate]
Ignoring any flush possibility, who would win?
Board: AAKKQ
Player 1: 23
Player 2: 9J
I think both players split the pot in half because they both have two pairs and Q as kicker, but people keep ...
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Player allowed to play for main pot after folding during side pot action?
There are three players: A, B and
A has $25, B has $50, and C has $100
A goes all-in
B and C call
Later in the hand, C makes B fold
Now, as B folded, will B be allowed to play for the main pot?...
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If you put chips out but don't say anything while it's your turn, can you take them back, even if you didn't say anything?
My dad and I were playing poker and it was his turn, he put chips out there, removed his hand from the chips, and I said I call. Then he took his chips back and said he didn't bet yet because he didn'...
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Why does 555 beat QQQ in this Doyle vs Elezra hand?
I am confused about this video:
Doyle Brunson vs Eli Elezra
Why does 555 beat QQQ? Or I am missing something?
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Texas hold'em - Counting outs - Why not consider a possible pair?
I'm reading Poker Math that matters by Owen Gaines and I'm struggling to calculate outs in certain situations. For instance, I could not understand fully this example in the book:
Hero: Jh7s Villain: ...
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