Poker 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
Following are a number of important one-card draws
Following are a number of important one-card draws you will confront with the bug in a 53-card deck. With an open-ended three-card sequence 4,5,6, all of the same suit, and the bug, the player has a perfect combination that will give him nearly an equal chance to fill in, 22 in 48 or a 45.83% chance of making a straight flush, a flush, or a straight. This is known as a 22-way hand. This hand deserves a raise before the draw. Another 22-way hand is the 10, jack, queen, all of the same suit, plus the bug. Twelve cards will make a straight for this 22-way hand, six cards a flush, and four cards a straight flush. Same odds and percentage figure as shown in the above 22-way hand prevail. This hand is also worth a raise before the draw.
A one-card draw to 6,7,
A one-card draw to 6,7, and 9, all of the same suit, and the bug, is a 19-way hand, and 19 times out of 48, or about 40% of the time, will fill in.