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
Four of a Kind
Four of a Kind Though there are only 13 four-of-a-kind combinations (one for each denomination), there are 624 Poker hands containing four of a kind. With each of the 13 combinations, the fifth card could be any one of the other 48 cards. Therefore, we must multiply 13 by 48 to get the total possible hands containing the 13 four-of-a-kind combinations.
Full Houses
Full Houses To calculate the number of possible full houses is easy—when you know how. Let's take three deuces as a starting point. There are four possible combinations of three deuces, since we are making use of only three deuces out of the four. But we have 13 different denominations from ace to king, and each of these has four possible combinations, for a total of 52 possible three-card combinations.