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.
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
The two tables above show that the best chance for improvement with three of a kind is to draw cards and not hold a kicker. Holding a kicker increases the odds against the player for any improvement.
A very unusual mathematical situation arises in Deuces Wild and also in a 53-card deck with the joker wild regarding the relative value of three of a kind and two pairs. In Deuces Wild, as detailed in the table on