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Having already dealt with hand rankings and the starting hands in parts 1 and 2, it's time to turn to the mathematical side of the game and see just how much difference the 36-card deck makes to pot odds.
Let's start with an open example:
Example 1
Six plus Hold'em ($10/20, 6-handed)
Hero:910
Villain:QQ
Villain opens in seat 1 for $50, everyone else folds and you call in the BB. Pot = $110
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Flop:7KA
Hero checks and Villain continuation bets$55, half the pot, making the pot$165 (let's not discuss whether it's a good play or not - I'm trying to make the maths simple for us all!)
We don't know what the villain has, but we're pretty sure we are only drawing to the flush here, so it comes down to pot odds whether we call or not (let's ignore a speculative re-raise in this scenario!)
There are only nine spades in the deck in total (remember that the 2,3,4 and 5 are all out of play) and five of them are split between the board, our hand and our opponent's hand. We don't know that he has the Qs, so that's only four in play for our purposes – so five cards left to draw to.
So, 5 of the 31 cards unknown to us will likely win, which is about a 17% chance of hitting, and we have two attempts at hitting it, so roughly 34%.
The other way of calculating this is to count one out, which is one in 31 = 3.2%, so…
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In this instance, we are being offered 3-1 on the pot, and we are 2-1 to win, so it's an easy call. Our flush draw will come in more often than not.
So, just as we saw in Part 2 that we are twice as likely to receive any particular starting hand, so the unofficial ‘Rule of 4 & 2' changes and becomes….the ‘Rule of 2&1'. Our %'s are easy to calculate quickly, if not 100% accurately.
With two cards to come in Texas Hold'em Encore boston harbor casino opening. , we multiply our outs by four, if only the river is left then times by two. In Six Plus 2x and 1x is the easy way.
Also useful to note is if we had reason to believe our opponent was on trips, then his quite realistic chances of hitting a full house would have to be factored in were we playing Texas Hold'em – but in Six Plus a Flush beats a Full House anyway, so it wouldn't be an issue. A difference, and a crucial one.
Let's try another example, and see how straights play with pot odds and outs.
Example 2
Six plus Hold'em ($10/20, 6-handed)
Hero:910
Villain:QQ
Villain opens in seat 1 for $50, everyone else folds and you call in the BB. Pot = $110
Flop:78K
Hero checks and Villain c-bets $55, half the pot, making the pot $165 (again, keeping the maths simple)
So, first of all we have ‘nothing' except an open-ended straight draw, and we can consider our opponent to have something better than this, so again we are drawing to win.
We have eight outs (the four 6's and the 4 Jacks) and there are again 31 unknown cards, so roughly 26%. And we have the turn and river to hit them. So, using the ‘guesstimator' rule of ‘2 & 1' for practical play, we can say 2 x 26%=52% chance of hitting.
Just to check this….
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This is even clearer than example one when it comes to pot odds: 3-1 pot odds and even money on a win with your straight.
However, if you factor in that your opponent might have trips – which now beats a straight in Six Plus Holdem, it brings the odds down a bit - though you'd have to actually ‘know' he was on trips to let it affect your play here.
The even more interesting aspect which this brings up, as pointed out on PokerVIP, is that:
Basically, if you know that your opponent doesn't have trips or better, you can just keep on raising, because if you have any kind of fold equity, you're going to profit in the long run; and when you do get called, it's as close to a flip as it will ever be, provided you're not drawing dead.'
Odds and Probabilities from the flop to the river | Texas | Six Plus |
Making a flush from a 4-flush | 34.5% | 33% |
Making a full house or better from a set | 33.3% | 54% |
Making a full house from 2 pair | 16.4% | 26% |
Filling an open-ended straight draw | 31.3% | 51% |
Filling a gutshot straight by the river | 16.4% | 26% |
Odds and Probabilities at the turn | Texas | Six Plus |
Making a flush from a 4-flush | 19.6% | 16.5% |
Making a full house or better from a set | 21.7% | 32.2% |
Making a full house from 2 pair | 8.33% | 12.8% |
Filling an open-ended straight draw | 17.2% | 25.6% |
Filling a gutshot straight draw | 8.33% | 12.8% |
OK, so these are the basics regarding pot odds and outs –for deeper strategy I refer you back to our earlier link where you can find all sorts of goodies which explain the differences in more details: stacking off, 3-betting ranges and much more.
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Ace Poker Drills is designed by successful poker players, for poker players. It will help any player to better remember which starting hands to play with and will help to strengthen their ability to calculate equity, odds, and outs. Become an expert at the most important part of Texas hold'em, solid preflop decision making. The #1 Ranked Poker Odds Calculator by CardsChat™ - Easy & FREE tool for calculating odds for Hold'em, Omaha & more. Find on Google Play & App Store. The Best Poker Hands Calculator. You can use this calculator while playing or reviewing past hands to work out the odds of you winning or losing. Have fun letting your friends know that they made a less than optimal move against you in a home game. Or prove that you made the right play based on the odds shown in the 888poker Poker Calculator.
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Having already dealt with hand rankings and the starting hands in parts 1 and 2, it's time to turn to the mathematical side of the game and see just how much difference the 36-card deck makes to pot odds.
Let's start with an open example:
Example 1
Six plus Hold'em ($10/20, 6-handed)
Hero:910
Villain:QQ
Villain opens in seat 1 for $50, everyone else folds and you call in the BB. Pot = $110
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Flop:7KA
Hero checks and Villain continuation bets$55, half the pot, making the pot$165 (let's not discuss whether it's a good play or not - I'm trying to make the maths simple for us all!)
We don't know what the villain has, but we're pretty sure we are only drawing to the flush here, so it comes down to pot odds whether we call or not (let's ignore a speculative re-raise in this scenario!)
There are only nine spades in the deck in total (remember that the 2,3,4 and 5 are all out of play) and five of them are split between the board, our hand and our opponent's hand. We don't know that he has the Qs, so that's only four in play for our purposes – so five cards left to draw to.
So, 5 of the 31 cards unknown to us will likely win, which is about a 17% chance of hitting, and we have two attempts at hitting it, so roughly 34%.
The other way of calculating this is to count one out, which is one in 31 = 3.2%, so…
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In this instance, we are being offered 3-1 on the pot, and we are 2-1 to win, so it's an easy call. Our flush draw will come in more often than not.
So, just as we saw in Part 2 that we are twice as likely to receive any particular starting hand, so the unofficial ‘Rule of 4 & 2' changes and becomes….the ‘Rule of 2&1'. Our %'s are easy to calculate quickly, if not 100% accurately.
With two cards to come in Texas Hold'em Encore boston harbor casino opening. , we multiply our outs by four, if only the river is left then times by two. In Six Plus 2x and 1x is the easy way.
Also useful to note is if we had reason to believe our opponent was on trips, then his quite realistic chances of hitting a full house would have to be factored in were we playing Texas Hold'em – but in Six Plus a Flush beats a Full House anyway, so it wouldn't be an issue. A difference, and a crucial one.
Let's try another example, and see how straights play with pot odds and outs.
Example 2
Six plus Hold'em ($10/20, 6-handed)
Hero:910
Villain:QQ
Villain opens in seat 1 for $50, everyone else folds and you call in the BB. Pot = $110
Flop:78K
Hero checks and Villain c-bets $55, half the pot, making the pot $165 (again, keeping the maths simple)
So, first of all we have ‘nothing' except an open-ended straight draw, and we can consider our opponent to have something better than this, so again we are drawing to win.
We have eight outs (the four 6's and the 4 Jacks) and there are again 31 unknown cards, so roughly 26%. And we have the turn and river to hit them. So, using the ‘guesstimator' rule of ‘2 & 1' for practical play, we can say 2 x 26%=52% chance of hitting.
Just to check this….
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This is even clearer than example one when it comes to pot odds: 3-1 pot odds and even money on a win with your straight.
However, if you factor in that your opponent might have trips – which now beats a straight in Six Plus Holdem, it brings the odds down a bit - though you'd have to actually ‘know' he was on trips to let it affect your play here.
The even more interesting aspect which this brings up, as pointed out on PokerVIP, is that:
Basically, if you know that your opponent doesn't have trips or better, you can just keep on raising, because if you have any kind of fold equity, you're going to profit in the long run; and when you do get called, it's as close to a flip as it will ever be, provided you're not drawing dead.'
Odds and Probabilities from the flop to the river | Texas | Six Plus |
Making a flush from a 4-flush | 34.5% | 33% |
Making a full house or better from a set | 33.3% | 54% |
Making a full house from 2 pair | 16.4% | 26% |
Filling an open-ended straight draw | 31.3% | 51% |
Filling a gutshot straight by the river | 16.4% | 26% |
Odds and Probabilities at the turn | Texas | Six Plus |
Making a flush from a 4-flush | 19.6% | 16.5% |
Making a full house or better from a set | 21.7% | 32.2% |
Making a full house from 2 pair | 8.33% | 12.8% |
Filling an open-ended straight draw | 17.2% | 25.6% |
Filling a gutshot straight draw | 8.33% | 12.8% |
OK, so these are the basics regarding pot odds and outs –for deeper strategy I refer you back to our earlier link where you can find all sorts of goodies which explain the differences in more details: stacking off, 3-betting ranges and much more.
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