Archive for Hand odds

Wondering how to calculate the odds of getting a winning hand in poker, while you’re in play? It’s not the easiest thing to do, and most professionals either approximate or bluff, or both. Poker Lab Rat discusses the way that Poker pro Clonie Gowen calculates her odds while in play. It’s helpful if you are […]

Every now and then something in gaming goes high tech, whether it was the invention of dice or cards or roulette or slot machines or video gaming or internet gaming. Well we have a great new tool that will help you learn and visualize odds calculations. Its a graphical tool and its slick!

And then there was Muffy. Muffy is usually miffed because a) she plays online poker, and b) utilizes that arcane science of mathematics . . . specifically, the branch of probabilities for hand odds.
Quite rightly, Muffy is ecstatic when her pair of sevens (spades and diamonds) turns into a sevens four-of-a-kind on a 9h, Kh, […]

In the past three articles, I’ve covered some fairly advanced calculations for determining hand odds for poker, particularly for Texas Hold’em. In this post, I want to cover the next level of calculations: factoring in multiple players. I’ll start with this post covering the basic mathematical formula, and in the next post I’ll provide an […]

In the last post, I covered two mathematical formulas useful for calculating advanced odds for poker hands - Texas Hold’em in particular. That post covered the basics. Let’s get in to some more details. (Please re-read the previous post before continuing, as the latter-half of this post is fairly math-dense.)
There are 10 categories of poker […]

By now, hopefully you’ve had a chance to read some or all of my numerous posts on calculating hand odds for Texas Hold’em. Let’s have a look at some more advanced calculations, including determining the number of possible specific hands. (Warning: math ahead. But it’s easy, I swear.) With cards, order of dealing sort of […]

Understanding hand odds should be a crucial part of your strategy for playing Texas Hold’em, or any of its variations. It’s not exactly easy to think on the fly, especially when it comes to dividing strange fractions in your head during a tournament. So you should get a handle on how to calculate when you’re […]