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
The following table will give you an idea of the frequency with
The following table will give you an idea of the frequency with which you may expect to be dealt a best pat hand with a 53-card deck which includes a joker. California Lowball with the Joker, a 53-card deck, possesses 2,869,685 possible five-card hands. Of this figure, slightly less than half, or to be specific, 1,302,540, are low hands. However, since straights and flushes count low in this California Low-ball variation, we must add 7,768 flushes, 216 straight flushes, 24 royal flushes, and 20,532 straights to this low-hand figure of 1,302,540 for a total of 1,331,084 low hands. The table that follows will give you an idea of the possibilities of your catching a valuable pat hand.
CHANCES OF BEING DEALT A PAT HAND
CHANCES OF BEING DEALT A PAT HAND IN CALIFORNIA LOWBALL Rank of Specific Hand Number of Specific Hands Chances of Being Dealt SpecificHand Chances of Being Dealt Specific Hand orBetter Cinch bicycle