Profit by position: What would you pay to be psychic in poker?

So for several weeks I've been doing an experiment that Andrew and I came up with. I ran the math on all limit hold'em hands, and then constructed a set that I thought were playable for one bet, and another set playable for two bets. With a roughly repeatable preflop and postflop strategy, I set…

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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…

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How do you play Aces when there’s an Aces cracked bonus available?

For reasons more complicated than I can explain here, my weekday schedule has me awake when everyone else is asleep from 4:30am or 5am onwards.  Tuesday through Friday I’ve been spending 2-3 hours every morning at my local poker room.  (Yes it’s surprisingly full at that time of the morning) From 6-9am they have a…

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