Tournament Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
The above table of probabilities is based on 2,598,960 possible
The above table of probabilities is based on 2,598,960 possible five-card hands that can be dealt from a 52-card deck. The probability for each specific hand in this Deuce to Seven Lowball game is 1,020. In other words, there are 1,020 ways to be dealt a hand of specific rank not including high hands such as straights, flushes, straight flushes, four of a kind, etc. As an example, a pat cinch hand 7-5-4-3-2 and an eight high (8-7-6-4-3) have an equal chance of being dealt in the first five dealt cards. The odds against each of these hands being dealt pat are 2,547 to 1.
More important than any of the above probabilities is to know that
More important than any of the above probabilities is to know that the odds are 20 to 1 of being dealt a pat ten high or lower. And the odds are 2 to 1 against anyone holding such a pat hand in a seven-handed game.