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Texas Hold'em Poker Odds for Your Strategy, with Probability-Based Hand Analyses (Paperback)
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In the flop stage, what are your odds of achieving a straight by
river and what are the odds of your opponents achieving something
higher? If you will achieve the straight, what are the new odds of
your opponents beating it in the river stage? How about the full
house? How strong is your hand from mathematical point of view and
how can you use this information in your play? This is the kind of
questions that this book deals with.In improving poker skills,
acquisition of information is vital, whether we talk about data a
player collects during a specific game or pre-established
mathematical facts behind the card distribution, including
prediction. Texas Hold'em Poker is a game highly suitable for
probability-based decisions. The power of a single card changing
the hand hierarchies at every stage is a strong argument that every
objective strategy should be probability based and so the card odds
should be part of such a strategy. The book is a complete
probability guide of Hold'em Poker, covering all possible gaming
situations, an improved edition of the bestseller "Texas Hold'em
Odds," published in 2004. In this edition, the author focused on
the practical side of the presentation and use of the probabilities
involved in Hold'em, while taking into account everywhere the
subjective side of the probability-based criteria of each player's
strategy.The first part of the book deals with the odds of specific
card formations, from one pair to straight flush, at every stage of
the game, grouped in three large categories: long-shot odds for own
hand, long-shot odds for opponent's hands and immediate odds. These
odds are collected in tables at the end of each section and, where
generating two-dimensional tables was not possible, the compact
formulas returning the odds are provided. All tables and formulas
are followed by examples of how to use them for finding the desired
odds in a specific gaming situation. All probability results were
worked out through compact mathematical formulas and not by the use
of any software based on partial simulations. The chapter
"Operating with and Weighting the Odds" is the main new material
added to the first edition and deals with the rules of estimating
and evaluating the probabilities of complex gaming events in order
to use them in a strategy, by using the odds provided in the first
part of the book. When we are allowed to add together the partial
probabilities of a union of events for an overall probability and
when we are not, methods of approximation and tips of avoiding hard
calculations, all have their dedicated subchapters, packed with
suggestive examples of application on concrete hands. The author
also introduces the concept of strength matrix of a hand, within
the adequate mathematical model of the strength of a Hold'em hand,
and argues why the strength of a hand should be defined through
mathematical probabilities. At this point, he proves that what most
of the so-called odds calculators return are not mathematical
probabilities and cannot stand as objective strength indicators for
Hold'em hands.The last chapter is a suggestive collection of
probability-based hand analyses on concrete Hold'em hands that can
be generalized to categories of hands having identical results
associated.The author is a recognized authority on casino/gaming
mathematics and his books are in the official bibliography of the
students of several gambling institutes and organizations around
the globe. This book is the most trusted and professional source
for the mathematical facts of Hold'em Poker, a must-have completion
for any strategy book.
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