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Chinese poker

March 19th, 2010

Chinese poker is a card game that has been played in the Asian community for many years. It has begun to gain popularity in the broader world of game players because it has all the features of a good gambling game:

It is easy to learn.
Anyone who knows the rank of Poker hands can [...]

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Chicago poker

February 23rd, 2010

The poker game called Chicago is one of the most popular card games in Sweden today. Relying on the keeping of score instead of the placing of bets, it is suitable even for environments such as schools, where gambling is often prohibited. The game exists in countless versions, so here a (somewhat [...]

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WinHoldEm

January 31st, 2010

WinHoldEm is an online Texas hold ‘em bot, created by Ray Bornert. Bots of this kind can sometimes be used in online poker play, but this is considered cheating by poker rooms, and grounds for account termination. The bot is loaded, and will play in lieu of a real human, calculating pot [...]

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Texas Hold’em Bonus Poker

January 2nd, 2010

Texas Hold’em Bonus Poker is a gambling card game is owned and licensed by Mikohn Gaming/Progressive Gaming International Corporation. The game is based on traditional multi-player Texas Hold’em poker.
Rules

The game is played with a standard 52 card deck.
Each player makes an ante bet of 1 unit and may make an optional bonus [...]

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Chen Point Count

December 2nd, 2009

There is a way to compute the Skalansky Malmuth table for those people who have trouble memorizing. The results are almost identical to those generated using the Chen Point Count.[1] To compute the point count the following formula should apply:

Take the high card and score it. A=10,K=8,Q=7,J=6,T-2 = 1/2 value shown.
If the 2nd [...]

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Texas hold ‘em hand groups

October 18th, 2009

David Sklansky and Mason Malmuth [1] assigned each hand to a group, and proposed all hands in the group could normally be played similarly. Stronger starting hands are identified by a lower number. Hands without a number are the weakest starting hands.

Pre-Flop Basic Strategy

A
K
Q
J
T
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2

A
1
2
2
3
3
7
7
8
8
8
8
8
8

K
2
1
2
3
7
7
7

Q
3
4
1
3
8

J
3
4
4
1
3

T
4
7
8
7
2
6

9
8
7

3
6

8
8

4
6

[...]

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Twist

October 11th, 2009

Twist is poker jargon for a round with specific rules which is sometimes used in the poker variant stud poker.
One can replace any round of (or add a round to) a stud poker game with a twist round, in which each player is offered the option to replace exactly one card in [...]

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Essentials in Texas hold ‘em hands

September 25th, 2009

There are (52 × 51)/2 = 1,326 distinct possible combinations of two hole cards from a standard 52-card deck in hold ‘em, but since suits have no relative value in poker, many of these hands are identical in value before the flop. For example, A♣J♣ and A♥J♥ are identical, because each is [...]

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Texas hold ‘em hands

September 17th, 2009

In the poker game Texas hold ‘em, a player’s hand consists of two hole cards, which belong solely to the player and remain hidden from the other players. Five community cards are also dealt into play. Betting begins before any of the community cards are exposed, and continues throughout the hand.
The player’s [...]

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Runner-runner outs in Texas hold ‘em

September 8th, 2009

Some outs for a hand require drawing an out on both the turn and the river—making two consecutive outs is called a runner-runner. Examples would be needing two cards to make a straight, flush, or three or four of a kind. Runner-runner outs can either draw from a common set of outs [...]

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Seven-card stud – Sample deal

September 3rd, 2009

The sample deal below assumes that a game is being played by four players: Alice, who is dealing in the examples; Bob, who is sitting to her left; Carol to his left; and David to Carol’s left.
All players ante $.25. Alice deals each player two downcards and one upcard, beginning with Bob [...]

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Example of drawing outs

August 22nd, 2009

The unseen cards principle states that to calculate the probability (from the point of view of a player about to act) that the next card dealt will be among a certain set, he must divide the number of cards in that set by the number of cards he has not seen, regardless [...]

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Texas Hold’em – After the flop

August 17th, 2009

During play—that is, from the flop and onwards—drawing probabilities come down to a question of outs. All situations which have the same number of outs have the same probability of winning. For example, an inside straight draw (e.g. 34 67 missing the 5 for a straight), and a full house draw (e.g. [...]

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Seven-card stud play rules

August 13th, 2009

The game begins with each player being dealt two cards face down and one card face up. If played with a bring-in, the player with the lowest-ranking upcard pays the bring-in, and betting proceeds after that in normal clockwise order. The bring-in is considered an open, so the next player in turn [...]

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Flopping overcards when holding a pocket pair

July 7th, 2009

It is useful to look at the chances different starting hands have of either improving on the flop, or of weakening on the flop. One interesting circumstance concerns pocket pairs. When holding a pocket pair, overcards (cards of higher rank than the pair) weaken the hand because of the potential that an [...]

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Seven-card stud

June 29th, 2009

Seven-card stud is a variant of stud poker. Until the recent increase in popularity of Texas hold ‘em, seven-card stud was the most popular poker variant in home games across the United States, and in casinos in the eastern part of the country. Seven-card stud is also played in western American casinos, [...]

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The flop

May 8th, 2009

The value of a starting hand can change dramatically after the flop. Regardless of initial strength, any hand can flop the nuts—for example, if the flop comes with three 2s, any hand holding the fourth 2 has the nuts. Conversely, the flop can undermine the perceived strength of any hand—A♣ A♥ would [...]

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Roll your own

May 4th, 2009

Roll your own is poker jargon used for a particular ruleset in certain poker variants, particularly in stud poker.In traditional stud poker games, cards are simply dealt to each player, either face up or face down according to the rules of the game being played, followed by betting. In roll your own [...]

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Lowball

April 30th, 2009

Some forms of poker, often called lowball, sometimes called “low poker,” reward poor poker hands (in the traditional sense). There are three common variations on this idea, differing in whether aces are treated as high cards or low cards, and whether or not straights and flushes are used. The methods are:

Ace-to-five low: [...]

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Probability of the dominated hands in Texas Hold’em

April 26th, 2009

When evaluating a hand before the flop, it’s useful to have some idea of how likely the hand is dominated. A dominated hand is a hand that is beaten by another hand (the dominant hand) and is extremely unlikely to win against it. Often the dominated hand has only a single card [...]

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