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
Actually the only real skill in this game consists of betting a good
Actually the only real skill in this game consists of betting a good opening hand to the maximum limit. Let's suppose you have a high pair back to back, and some other active player made the opening bet, raise when it comes your turn to bet. Should your first three cards be of the same suit, the odds against making your four flush are about 1 1/2 to 1 against. Accordingly, if the pot odds are good, it is well worth a couple of raises. In short, if you hold a three-card flush in the first three cards, you are in the driver's seat.
But don't think that being dealt a four flush in your five dealt cards is
But don't think that being dealt a four flush in your five dealt cards is any easy matter. As a matter of fact, probabilities inform us that there are 115,540 possible four flushes that you can draw from. But since the total five-card combinations (hands) in a 52-card deck are 2,598,960, we divide this total by 115,540 (four-card flushes) and learn that the chances of being dealt a four flush is 1 in 22.49 deals. And the chances of being dealt two pairs is 1 in 21.03 deals. This proves that a four flush should not only beat a single pair but two pairs as well— but that's not the way this game is played. However, I'm sure this knowledge will serve you well.