Poker is a card game with several variants (Draw, Texas Hold'em, ...), the common goal being to collect face value patterns such as "four of a kind", "full house" or "straight" or all of a suit ("flush") with five cards. Questions about combinatorics, probabilities, strategies (bluffing and betting).
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Poker blind interest equation
I'm trying to find the equation that will calculate my blinds for me based on number of players and target length of a tournament. I have most of it. I'm only missing one part.
Given a starting blind and the blind at the target end time, I need an…
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Poker Rank Probabilities in three cards poker game -- single deck vs. multiple decks.
Poker is a game that plays with a single deck of cards. However, for the purpose of learning, I want to know the probability of poker hands in multiple decks. To simplify the problem, let's take a popular three-card poker game, and calculate…
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Interpretation of Pot Odds (mainly in poker)
In the middle is 10 dollars, someone bets 5. I have to call 5 dollars in order to win 10 dollars.
My Pot Odds - 5:10 = 1:2
I can interpret it as that i can lose 2 games and win 1 and I ll be break-even. Therefore I must win 1/(1+2) of the time…
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Probability that a player is dealt aces once in the next five deals ? Does it matter if they have aces now?
Someone asked me this today and I am stumped . A player has been dealt aces of any suit combination in a 2 card holdem hand. He/She is holding Aces in their hand. What are the chances the player will be dealt aces of any combination in the immediate…
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Where are the three extra cards coming from for this Texas Hold Em hand?
I've recently gotten into odds/probabilities, and even though I don't fully grasp the concept of binomial coefficients/Combinatorics, I'm still trying to figure out some probabilities using good old fashioned.. probabilities. The scenario that I'm…
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Video Poker - RTP
This site shows that using a 'simple' strategy or an 'optimal' strategy in Jacks Or Better 'fullpay' pay table(see below) video poker results in $99\%$ return-to-player (RTP). RTP is defined as the fraction of money won to money wagered.
What would…
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