Posts Tagged ‘math’
Combinatorics in Texas Hold’em Limit Poker
Combinatorics is the mathematical technique of enumerating and analyzing combinations of objects. If you've ever had a pair of pocket Aces preflop and had an opponent bet his whole stack against you, you did a form of this analysis in your head. Presumably your reasoning went something like this:"I have the best hand. Any two…
Read MorePoker Strategy – Pot Odds, Hand Strength, and other topics
IntroductionI’ve been playing poker since I was a kid, when my family played 5 card draw in between highly competitive games of Uno. (Cheating was a strategy, and mirrors were employed once to great effect.) However I’ve really only been studying poker since 2005. I’m at that level where if a handful of casual friends…
Read MoreDealing with a blinds thief / stealing the blinds / defending your blind
It happens all the time in Hold’em: you’re in the big blind and some jackass goes to steal your big blind. Stealing blinds is good money in a casino that doesn’t rake until the flop, but to be successful at it you have to be able to play after the flop or pick on a…
Read MoreModeling $3/$6 players
I’m doing some math modeling of hand equity of various hands with pokerstove. What happens to JJ at a table when someone raises,and you’ve got 2, 3, 4 players? What if they’re solid players? What if one is a complete donk? Does the hand have a positive or negative expected value? If you were doing…
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