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Hold'em: Why does K♠️7♠️ beat A♠️2♠️ more frequently than K♠️8♠️ does?
K7 steals one winner from A2
K7 wins 3456 and K8 does not
K8 does not steal 4567 as A2 does not have a piece of it
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What are the odds of making a royal flush after the flop in Texas Hold 'Em?
There are 2598960 unique 5-card poker hands (C(n,r) = C(52, 5) = 2598960). 4 of those are royal flushes. So, the odds of one specific player flopping a royal flush would be 4-in-2598960, or 1-in-...
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Questionable Tournament Rule With Two Players Left
This is false. The hand will play out as usual with the flop, turn, and river.
I'm not sure where your friend heard this or why he believed it. There are plenty of televised heads-up tournament ...
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Rules when dealer flips river early
Depends on the rules in use. Two common sets are Roberts rules and Tournament Directors Association (TDA) rules.
From Roberts Rules:
IRREGULARITIES:
If the dealer prematurely deals any cards ...
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Acting out of turn.
Most of the time in poker, the WSOP rules are held as canon, so keeping that in mind, this is what the 2016 WSOP rulebook has to say:
Non-Standard Folds: Any time before the end of the last ...
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Why is 4, 3, 2, A, K not considered a straight in Texas Hold'em Poker?
Because that's the rules of the game. Simple as that. Straights are not cyclic, they're linear. Think of the Ace as the start point and end point but not at the same time. I.E. You can have an Ace ...
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How to determine the winning hands in poker?
Each player in a basic game of poker is given five cards to make their hand. There are variants to the game where players receive more than five cards and players have community cards. However it is ...
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What are the rules of a misdeal in casinos?
So I'm going to just copy and paste the TDA rules here as they are one of the most common set of rules enforced around the world, and often if a place is not using the official TDA rules, they're ...
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A detailed definition of a Donk Bet
Generally a donk bet is when a players leads out with a bet (often on the flop, but could also be turn or river) before the preflop raiser has acted (i.e. when the preflop raiser was in position ...
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Ruling on a non-standard check
The only relevant question here is what the other players thought and how they reacted. If they thought it was a check, and reacted in any way that you might have been able to see before you bet, then ...
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Ruling on a non-standard check
If you did one of the following things, you committed to checking the turn:
Clearly say the word "check"
Deliberately pat the table with your fingers extended twice in succession
Deliberately knock ...
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What is the min-raise and min-reraise in Holdem No Limit?
@Dutch.Boyd's answer contradicts the very TDA he posted with it.
B: In no-limit and pot limit, an all-in wager of less than a full raise does not reopen the betting to a player who has already ...
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Card flip on deal. Misdeal or next card?
This doesn't apply universally, but anywhere that uses the TDA rules would use this:
34: Misdeals
A: Misdeals include but are not necessarily limited to: 1) 2 or more boxed cards on the initial ...
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Poker winning hands
Five best cards win. Your five best cards would be TT222, hence indeed you have a full house which beats his TT66J hand.
Best five cards is always best five cards for the player holding the hand!
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What happens if there is royal flush on board
The best five cards play, so the remaining players at showdown split the pot.
In the case of a full house, if somebody has a better pair in their hand or make of 4 of a kind the best 5 card hand wins....
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What is the official procedure for starting a hand in texas holdem heads up?
The key is the button represents the dealer, the dealer doesn't deal himself/herself first. So, the first card goes to the big blind player in heads-up.
According to heads up poker rules, the ...
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What hand is this?
A poker hand is 5 cards, so the dealer is showing that the winning hand is JJKQ7. If, instead, the winning hand had been AhKh for a flush, the dealer instead would have raised the Qh 4h and 7h.
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Knowing whether to continue after calculating outs percentage
So just to offer you a small bit of clarity on outs, you absolutely do not have a 35% chance of winning the hand! You have a 35% chance of improving your hand. This is an important distinction to ...
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Why did I lose this poker hand?
You lost because your opponent had a flush. If he did not have a flush, then you didn't lose.
If neither of you had a flush, you tied, both with the same hand: AAJJ9
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Who gets the side pot?
No matter the subsequent actions of player 1, as soon as player 2 folds, player 1 should be awarded the side pot, even if his cards are never seen by anyone.
Player 3 should never, ever be awarded ...
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Four to a flush with suited hand and two community cards, opponent raises, what to do?
In general to calculate your percentage of hitting you can do the following:
Count your outs. In your case: 13 cards of your suit minus the 4 you already see make 9 cards in the deck which will make ...
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Push or just call on the turn with trips against an over-pair and you know it?
My initial reaction when reading this hand was that a push was the easy play. After thinking about it a little, I'm not sure that it's so clear. Make no mistake, a push is absolutely a good, ...
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Aggression vs cheap flop
But even a call to a raise in early position is not a cheap flop. 2BB is 2BB and you have 4 players behind you that could re-raise.
K-10 suited is not just outside the tight range in early ...
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Pot Odds Paradox in Short Stack
Your "paradox" arises from the fact that aside from your bet, the pot contains enough expected value already for each player that neither could improve their expected ending stack by folding. With ...
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How to determine the winning hands in poker?
Which Poker Hand Wins Calculator
Hands Overview
Straight Flush
Four of a kind
Full house
Flush
Straight
Three of a kind
Two Pair
Pair
High card
Why that order?
The order is based on math / ...
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Why are there two blinds in Texas Hold 'em instead of just one?
There are multiple problems with the proposal that 1 player put up 1.5xBB rather than as it is actually played.
a $1-$2 game would then just become a more expensive game as now it would cost $3 to ...
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Final table: All-in with AQ suited against a small stack?
First of all, you're likely right that your hand looks good against the range of UTG. The other factors though (mostly position) are unfavorable though, so the question is whether or not it's ...
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Can casino change the dealer decision after hand is over?
Yes they can watch the camera and overturn.
I bet the ruling was the other player did not muck. The player showed his hand. If the dealer collected the cards into the muck then it was not the ...
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Should you play low suited connectors?
Generally, low suited connectors don't have enough value to be played consistently and they have high reverse implied odds, meaning that even when you hit two pair, a straight, or a flush, it's still ...
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