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
Two Pairs
Two Pairs We already have calculated the possible number of pairs with each denomination as six. (See Full Houses.) Multiplying six by 13 denominations, we get a total of 78 possible pairs. A player may hold any one of these 78 pairs plus another pair—but not of the same denomination —which total we arrive at by multiplying the 12 denominations by the six possible Now, find the number of ways two pairs can be arranged, making use of the fifth, odd card; and our total figure is obtained thus:
One Pair
One Pair The total number of possible pairs is 78, as already calculated; therefore the player can hold any one of 78 pairs. But with this pair he must also hold three odd cards. Our total figure is obtained thus: To obtain the total number of hands containing less than one pair, merely add all the hands containing a pair or better, and subtract that total from the total possible five-card hands, which we have already calculated at 2,598,960. It gives us a total of 1,302,540. To ascertain the chances of being dealt any one of the above-ranking hands pat (in the first five cards dealt), divide the final total into 2,598,960, which again is the number of possible five-card Online Hold'em Poker hands in a 52-card deck. Example: If you want to find your chances of getting a flush dealt pat you divide 5,108 (total number of flushes in a 52-card deck) into 2,598,960, and th