Watching the mistakes others make seems to be a valuable way to learn poker -- it is far less costly then making the same mistake yourself. This time however I couldn't quite understand what was happening. Only two people saw the flop (using the names Nacho and Worship), and both of them were good, conservative players. I wasn't expecting much betting. (replies…)

Running some quick stats I noticed that if the board in hold'em is showing:

Then the distribution of possible hands, for all players, shows that two pair (41%) is more common than one pair (36%). I'll have to remember this while playing.

I'm guessing this applies to any board pair, not just these cards in particular.

Also, a full house has about 8% chance of occurring. (replies…)

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I'm holding J♥ T♣ and I'm on the river comes J♣ 9♠ 2♦ 6♥ T♠. I'd limped in with 3 others. My bet of $0.10 on the flop was met with two calls. A followup of $0.15 on the turn got one fold and one call. (replies…)

I've added a new brain↗ for my exploits in the world of poker. Anybody else can use it as well, though I don't suspect many, if any, people will -- but I should get some people reading it. (replies…)