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In some popular variations of poker such as Texas hold 'em, the most widespread poker variant overall, [3] a player uses the best five-card poker hand out of seven cards. The frequencies are calculated in a manner similar to that shown for 5-card hands, [ 4 ] except additional complications arise due to the extra two cards in the 7-card poker hand.
Poker calculators are algorithms which through probabilistic or statistical means derive a player's chance of winning, losing, or tying a poker hand. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Given the complexities of poker and the constantly changing rules, most poker calculators are statistical machines, probabilities and card counting is rarely used.
PokerStove is a program that calculates hand equities (i.e., expected percentage of the time that each hand wins at showdown). [3] Since poker is a game of incomplete information, the calculator is designed to evaluate the equity of ranges of hands that players can hold, instead of individual hands. [4]
The player's "playing hand", which will be compared against that of each competing player, is the best 5-card poker hand available from his two hole cards and the five community cards. Unless otherwise specified, here the term hand applies to the player's two hole cards, or starting hand.
Poker hand converters allow players to take text-based online poker hand history files from online cardrooms and convert them into formats friendly to the eye and suitable for posting on online message boards. Hand converters are often used to show played hands to other players for analysis and discussion.
Calculators are poker tools that calculate the odds of a hand (combined with the cards on the table if there are any) to win the game. Calculators provide precise odds but they cannot be used in live games and are therefore mostly used on Internet poker games. The first known commercial poker calculator was marketed by Mike Caro.
This discussion seems to be stale, but the page is currently incorrect and inconsistent. The probabilities in the table are wrong (you don't need a calculator to see that - the probability for a royal flush is listed as 1/10th the probability of a straight flush, but the ratio of frequencies listed is 4/36).
Probability of being dealt a four of a kind in poker 10 −3: Milli-(m) 1.3×10 −3: Gaussian distribution: probability of a value being more than 3 standard deviations from the mean on a specific side [17] 1.4×10 −3: Probability of a human birth giving triplets or higher-order multiples [18] Probability of being dealt a full house in poker ...