If those hands were all-in versus each other before the flop, which hand do you think has the highest equity? If you said 55, you would be right. Since a pair does not need to improve, it is only logical that it would have the highest chance of winning or highest equity. Here are the exact equities, calculated by my handy dandy equity calculator called Pokerstove.
Even though the pair has a pretty significant edge at times. Instead, you will need to just have a rudimentary understanding of the common equities pre-flop hands have against each other. Learn these few common equities below, and you will have all you need to know about pre-flop odds:.
In poker there are two different types of post-flop hands: made hands and draws. A range of hands just means the entirety of all the possible hands that an opponent can have based on the situation. An out is a potential future card that can improve a hands strength. The term out usually applies to drawing hands that are likely not ahead of their opponents hand at the moment. While it does help to just learn these common equities, there is an easy trick to figure out your approximate equity anytime.
When you hold a drawing hand, all you have to do is count your likely outs and you can quickly determine your approximate equity. Since we already went over how many outs each typical draw has, you just need to apply the rule of 4 and 2 to determine the likely equity:.
While the number is almost never going to be exactly right, due to the lack of complete information, you can still make good decisions based on what you do know. As you can see, the rule works really well for figuring out how likely it is that you would win by the river were you all-in right now. Now you can apply this information to figure out an opponents approximate equity as well. This will help us make much better decisions at the poker table.
Since you know how to count cards and figure out the approximate equity of a draw, you just need to look at the board and see if you can figure out the likely hand of your opponent. There is nothing you can do about the first two possibilities, and they likely offset each other most of the time.
What you really need to know is your equity versus the draws. Based on the possibility of your opponent also having worse Aces, it looks like a really profitable spot. It looks like counting cards helped us make a good decision. Once again we have AK on another board. This situation is very similar except our opponent can only have flush draws and two-pair hands are much less likely. However, there are a lot of hands our opponent could have that could contain a King.
Combined with the fact that there are lots of worse hands that can get all-in versus us right now, it looks like an even bigger slam dunk to commit our chips. With AK, we have top pair. As a result, Jersey shore casinos employ countermeasures to hinder card counters. They try to impede a card-counting blackjack player by using eight-deck shoes, shuffling at will to thwart bet variance and instructing the dealers to move the cut card near the top of the shoe.
In Nevada, before you sit down at a blackjack table, you're expected to check your brain at the door. There, laws allow casinos to operate somewhat like a private club, so plan on being asked to leave for using your cerebral matter.
Though counting isn't technically illegal, casinos in Nevada bar counters from playing blackjack by backing them off games. Feel free to play any of the other table games that we offer. Mark Pilarski is a contributing editor for numerous gambling publications. There are more than a few card counting strategies, but perhaps the best and easiest is a system called High-Low. Using the High-Low strategy, the card counter only has to keep a simple mental tally of three groups of cards.
Every time he or she sees a high number card played on the table the 10s and all the face cards , the counter subtracts 1 from his or her tally.
For every low number card the twos through sixes the counter adds 1 to his or her tally. The middle cards the sevens, eights, and nines are simply ignored. And when the deck is shuffled, the count goes back to 0.
With enough time, this straightforward tally becomes effortless. But the key to success is practice. Card counting is a long-term strategy, and keeping your 1 percent edge requires playing by the book game after game, while keeping count of what cards are rapidly being dealt and flipped on the table.
And in a bustling casino brimming with coming and going players, that means staying focused. Despite what any casino would like you to think, card counting is not illegal. But casinos know that card counters can and will lose them money.
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