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
HOW TO FIGURE POKER PROBABILITIES AND ODDS
HOW TO FIGURE POKER PROBABILITIES AND ODDS The relative value of Poker hands was not just conjured up by some rulemaker or arbitrarily assigned by the first primitive Poker players. It was instead determined by counting the exact number of possible five-card Poker hands in a 52-card pack. The counting was under a mathematical formula based on the theory and doctrine of permutations and combinations, a formula used for calculating probabilities.
Making use of it, the exact total of possible five-card Poker hands
Making use of it, the exact total of possible five-card Poker hands was determined; this total was divided into groups or ranks—such as a pair, two pair, three of a kind, a straight, etc. These ranks were then arranged in relative value according to the frequency of their occurrence.