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I have made a lot of questions on the strategy in poker, from novices to advanced, some are simple but include the principles of mathematics 1 that I never entered my head. When this happens I entrust myself to one of my tricks to calculate the chance of winning a hand:
Here’s an example based on a hand on my site:
Our hero was playing at a table small stakes No Limit Hold’em Online, with blinds $ 0.25 $ 0.50. Beginning of the hand was $ 44, his papers were Ad-Td and raised to $ 2. Both blinds called and the flop was Kd-Jd-2c, giving our hero a draft scale. The big blind bets $ 2, Hero raises another $ 2, small blind calls and the big blind moves all in, had more money than our friend.
Our hero should put in the pot his last $ 38? We have the third player folds his hand, if our hero would call and win over $ 94 (the $ 18 pot plus your $ 38 and $ 38 opponent). If he wins the hand four times out of 10 on average was $ 37.60 after ten hands ($ 94 multiplied by 4 and divided by 10). Thinking long term is important in poker, So it should be called only if his percentage of victory is greater than 40%. Now he must immaggine the chances he has of winning the hand.
The first step is to think of the possible hands your opponent, sometimes you understand exactly what he has in hand thanks to his way of points and signals that your body sends, but most times you have to guess. In this situation the other player probably has a very strong hand, but there is a possibility that is doing a bluff or a semi blff.
The highest hand that our hero may face a trio of K, in this case would have 12 outs to win the pot (all the paintings and the three queens), but even if he could close his color or his scale the opponent would have the opportunity to close a full or a poker with the last card. I could calculate the probabilities for each point, but I do not need.
But I can surf the internet and go to one of the many free odds calculators that will give us the% of winning the hand. The result says that Ad Td wins less than 34% of the time against KK, and less than 40% that would make the right call. If our hero was sure that his opponent has a trio should rise, the chances for any other trio are exactly the same.
Instead, if it were against two pair K and J? Using the calculator odds his chances of victory would be 44%, enough to make the correct call. Could also be any double against another couple who beat less likely (42%) or against AK (46%).
It would be an advantage if he were playing against an aggressive opponent who tried a semi bluff with something like QT (81%) or Qd 9d (82%).
Having now calculated the probability of victory to our hero is only the first part of the application, guess what his opponent has in hand. I think it’s likely that your opponent has two pair or less than a set, and I would say that from 5% to 10% of the time Ad Td is higher. I told our hero that representation of the numbers, I called.
Our hero is called, the opponent had KJ giving him a 44% chance of winning the hand. 2d on the turn but was released on the river was a J and the color of our hero has lost against the full opponent. The river was a bang, but playing by the numbers, our hero did the right thing.
It ‘a good thing to know the numbers, but it is equally important to know how to use them, and if you use the accessories that are around when you’re not sure of your calculations, you’ll see that later prove useful to the tables. In poker every accessory in your bag brings you a step closer to dominate the game.