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 Poker odds, percentages and probabilities given in this book,
The Poker odds, percentages and probabilities given in this book, including the following tables, are the most meaningful, informative and comprehensive found anywhere. They were worked out by me personally and are accurate beyond question (I hope).
CHANCES OF HOLDING ANY PARTICULAR HAND OR BETTER IN
CHANCES OF HOLDING ANY PARTICULAR HAND OR BETTER IN FIRST FIVE CARDS DEALT In the Chance column above, fractional figures have been rounded out to the nearest 2/5 or whole number. The probability of being dealt a pair or better in the first five cards dealt is almost even—and the probability of being dealt a no-pair hand is practically the same. So it's almost a three-to-one chance, when playing against two opponents, that one of them will hold a pair or better in the first five dealt cards. The probabilities vary slightly depending on what you hold. The 1,302,540 possible five-card no-pair hands are divided as follows: