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 calculate winning percentage in a poker game?
In some of the online poker apps they show winning percentage - which I interpret as chances of winning. How to calculate that - I understand that it is based on combinatorics. Suppose at Flop I have ...
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Splitting the pot between two players who have gone all in against two players with higher chip counts and won
So the title might be confusing, here's the scenario assuming a standard Texas Hold-Em game:
Player 1 is All-In with 100 chips in play
Player 2 is All-In with 200 chips in play
Player 3 has raised to ...
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Misdeal Texas Holdem
In Texas Holdem the hole cards have been dealt out. One person has only one card. Is this a misdeal? The other scenario one person received no cards is this a misdeal?
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Same river flush with pairs [duplicate]
My friend had heart6 and heart10 and i had par diamond jack
And the ”river” was diamond 6, diamond 10, diamond 3, diamond 7, diamond 9
So my friend had pari in 6 and 10 with flush in the river. And i ...
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Betting the flop with air
I've been studying NL holdem for a while and feel like I can grasp the basic concepts pretty well, but looking at GTO solver play post flop really makes me wonder. When I'm in a spot where I ...
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PokerStars lets you play from PC, but blocks on phone?
I live in eastern EU country and I play PokerStars on my desktop PC almost every day. I have confirmed account, identity, etc.
But if I download PokerStars app on Android it tells me to turn on ...
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Why at Pokerstars clicking a pot button adds 1000 more?
I played a 250/500 no-limit Hold'em cash game at Pokerstars and noticed the following:
If no one has raised yet, the preflop pot size is P = 750 (BB + SB). There is a pot button, clicking pot + raise ...
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Do bluffs contradict Sklansky's Fundamental Theorem of Poker?
Suppose I am at the button position with a hand 3h 5h. I decide to play this hand and the flop comes Ac 10s 8d. Suppose everyone before me checks.
Sklansky's Fundamental Theorem of Poker implies that ...
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How much to raise pre-flop in a late position with a reasonably good but not outstanding hand?
I am a beginner who's learning to play Hold'em Poker by playing fake money games at Pokerstars.
Suppose there are 6 of us and I am at the button. I have QJo. Everyone before me limps. I want to play ...
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Does the OTG strategy for heads-up limit Hold'em give a positive reward against a non-optimal opponent?
Consider the game of Rock-Paper-Scissors (1v1), +1 when we win, -1 when we loose. An OTG strategy is to select each sign uniformly at random. Unfortunately, this strategy will give you an expected ...
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Good fold or losing play? AK on AK988
Live 2/5 NLH, 8 handed.
Splashy and trappy UTG (900) limps. Hero (4000) in UTG+1 is dealt AhKd and raises to 30. ATC HJ (3300) calls 30, tight passive SB (1600) calls 30, BB folds, UTG calls 30.
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How to play AK hand against poor players anticipating that many of them will call you?
I was playing live limit Texas Hold'em against 6 other people (friends gathering). One opponent was pretty good, other 5 were bad players.
I was the dealer and had AK. The good opponent was at the UTG ...
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Which websites allow you to buy-in with a very small stack?
Recently, I’ve been reading about a small stack strategy for cash games. It involves entering the table with only 20 big blinds. Unfortunately, it seems that many poker websites (e.g. 888poker and ...
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Who wins the poker hand if there are 5A's on table?
So I was watching this song by Adam Levin where Adam had 2K's and SZA had 2A's. And the table had 5A's, I thought in this case it should be a tie and they both will split equally. But it seems from ...
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How deuces play in this?
I'm new to poker, I saw this tweet and people reporting 16 outs and including three deuces and I cannot understand how deuces play in this? Question on the tweet is how many outs does AA hero have?
9 ...
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Why do I keep losing against straights with sets? Is time to check fold sets?
I've been playing 5c/10c at the moment having moved up a few weeks ago and I keep losing to straights when I have a set.
Example 1: HJ raises I call BB,
Flop comes Qd,8c,3c,
I lead out 2/3 pot, HJ ...
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Can I find a sorted list of all hands stored as a single file online?
I'm building a Texas-Hold'em computer program and I need to determine which hand is a winner.
Can I find a sorted list of all hands stored as a single file online?
For example:
Hand, Rank
AH KH QH JH ...
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Is eight handed holdem here to stay?
So with the second shot in arm, after a little over a year, I climbed out of the cave and headed to the Bellagio to play. There I found plastic shielding on the tables and eight handed games to ...
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What would be the most transparent way to show a fair shuffle literally possible?
I want to make an ios app, for fun to improve my dev skills, to do what no other app/poker site has done and be completely transparent.
I just want to match casinos shuffling as imperfect as that may ...
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Slow play backfire
In a loose $1/$3 NL holdem I recently played, I had KsJs in small blind with about $430 stack size. I raised to $16, there were 3 callers: the big blind, MP and button, flop 9TQ rainbow, I had the nut ...
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Does Nash equilibrium strategy guarantee a non negative EV when two players are left?
Suppose two players A and B remain in the game of poker and they both have the same number of chips.
Suppose player A follows the Nash equilibrium strategy.
Is the player's A expected value ...
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The poker chips in the case are all gone, can I buy some from my fellow player?
I played poker with friends last weekend, and at a late hour our chips in the poker case ran out. Than we bought chips from the chip leader. We gave him 10 euros and we got the equivalent in chips ...
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Player accidentally takes another players hand, is this a misdeal
Texas-Hold-em Player accidentally took another player's hand (pocket Aces) immediately to his left and looked at it, other player said that is my hand and player said do you just want to take my hand ...
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Introduction to Probability with Texas Hold’em Example #4
Suppose in a tournament with only three players left, first place receives $6,000, second place receives $3,000, and third place receives $500. You have a 32% chance of winning first place, 30% chance ...
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How was this hand played? Any leaks I should be concerned about?
Game Info
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Cash Game
6-handed
Hand Info
Cards: A9s (Hearts)
Hero Position: Small Blind (SB)
Other Info
Only 2nd hand played ... just joined about 8 hands ago
No reads on any ...
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Fight, Flight, and Freezing At The Table?
I'm not sure if this is the correct place to ask this question since the issue seems so subjective and I have not found any poker-related material related to this issue.
I'm talking about the fight, ...
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Two Pair Question
So me and my buddies where playing poker and they both had 2 pair one had a 9 as the fifth card and one had an 8 but there was an ace on the board which is higher than both there 8 and 9.
Is it a ...
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What Should You Do When You Miss the Flop
What to do when you miss everything?
Please correct me when I'm wrong, but you only make your hand roughly 1/3 of the time. So, your opponent makes his hand 1/3 of the time too. So, not making my hand ...
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Number of two pair distinct hands
Well I'll try to be brief, reviewing the statistics about how to achieve a double pair I came to the conclusion that for each kicker of each card, (that in total 11 for each one), there are a total of ...
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Looking for website to easily create charts for starting hand ranges (Texas Holdem)
Many poker websites
e.g. this one https://automaticpoker.com/strategy/free-poker-preflop-range-charts-with-printable-pdfs/
have lots of charts that rank the strength of starting hands in Texas Holdem.
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What does "volatility on hand" mean and how do players use it?
Towards the end of part 1 of "Harrington on Hold'em" in the section titled "A Sample Hand," Harrington writes the following:
I thought I was one of the better players remaining at ...
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Host Website or App for Limit Hold ‘em Tournaments
Looking to find an app or website where I can host a poker tournament that is limit hold em. I’d like to have the ability to raise the limit every 30 min.
For context, we have a time limit poker ...
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Why are the odds 16 to 6 that any given player does not hold a pocket pair?
In the book Ken Warren teaches Texas Holdem, its explained that there are 1,326 possible combinations of hole cards. Then its explained that if you disregard suits, there are 169 possible two-hole ...
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Theory of Poker vs Theory of Poker Applied to NL
I am a beginner poker player who just started NLHE at the small/micro stakes. I was looking online for beginner books and saw several recommendations for The Theory of Poker by David Sklansky to be a ...
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How bet size affects decision for same number of players
I am new to poker, as you can tell by my question.
I was wondering whether(and how) the bet size should affect my decision on calling a hand(lets say pre-flop) if the number of players that will call ...
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in texas holdem player x has q2 and player L has q10 and you have in the flop qqjA who wins [duplicate]
in texas holdem player x has q2 and player L has q10 and you have in the flop qqjA who wins
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When do you or don't bet the river headsup and you last to act?
When do you bet the river heads-up when you're last to act, the villain checks to you, and you feel that you have the winning hand? Rephrase, under what situations do you bet the river after your one ...
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I need to know who wins on texas hold em [duplicate]
These are the table cards 3 k k 9 9
My hand A-J and my opponent has 8-8 who wins?
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Last player folds on the river
In an online Texas Hold'em game, two players are still active when the river card is dealt. The first player folds after seeing the river card. The remaining player folds and a message appear on the ...
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Who wins in this two pair situation? [duplicate]
Who wins in this situation. 5 cards are (5)(5)(9)(9)(2). Player 1 has (2)(A). Player 2 has (J)(A).
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Is there a place where you can play strong bots online?
I'd like to play against strong bots to practice, but so far I haven't found much.
I've seen http://www.cleverpiggy.com/nlbot, but it looks like it only allows heads-up. Ideally I'd like to practice 6-...
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Can a push/fold strategy be optimal (ie EV>=0 against any other strategy) in general
There are many push/fold charts that have been calculated which claim to be optimal in a simplified version of (no limit texas holdem) where only push/fold is possible.
So wouldn't always either ...
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When both players have same two pairs but the 5th card to make the best hand is a J and it’s on the board also in one of the players hands who wins? [duplicate]
Board: K J A A 3
Player 1: K J
Player 2: K 2
Signs don’t matter since no one had a flush. From my understanding it’s a tie. Since the best hand is A A K K J and both players have the best hand. Doesn’...
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Have you noticed any poker bots in your games?
I know that poker bots topic been around for as far as I can remember, but it seems that now it becomes more relevant to general players and can actually be a threat in the future, especially for cash ...
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Does showdown winner HAVE to show hand? [duplicate]
Player 1 makes final raise after River.
Player 2 calls.
Player 1 was bluffing and mucks.
Player 2 then mucks his hand.
Player 1 asks to see winning hand of Player 2, as he’s under the impression a ...
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BB to stack size ratio
Morning All,
Why is only the Big Blind used in measuring stack size? It ignores the effect of the Small Blind and antes in each round of play, If you have 20 BBs you only have 12.5 rounds of play ...
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How to bet with straight draw on the flop, and then straight on the turn?
I have 2 questions about bet sizing in no-limit holdem.
Your Hero is in an online microstakes tournament. First level is 10/20 with 3 antes. This is only the 2nd round so Hero doesn't know anything ...
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Correct messaging when all players fold
Given this scenario...
Current pot 1000
Player A bets 10
Player B calls
Player C raises to 100 (10 to call + 90 to raise)
Player A folds
Player B folds
What messaging should player C get? Should it ...
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Which among A, K, Q, J, 10 and A, 2, 3, 4, 5 of different suite is higher in Texas hold'em poker [duplicate]
A2345 (different suits) is a straight and I have doubt whether AKQJ10 (different suit) can also be called as a straight or not. If both are straights then which one is higher?
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Pre-flop decision making factors
I am looking for easy to spot key factors for a pre-flop decision making - right before one either folds, calls or raises. The settings is 9 players table, No-Limit Hold'em Cash Game.
The factors I ...
