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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]
In addition to the payout structure, a Malmuth-Harville ICM calculator would also require the chip counts of all players as input, [8] which may not always be available. The Malmuth-Harville model also gives poor estimates for unlikely events, and is computationally intractable with many players.
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.
Note that since suits have no relative value in poker, two hands can be considered identical if one hand can be transformed into the other by swapping suits. For example, the hand 3♣ 7♣ 8♣ Q♠ A♠ is identical to 3♦ 7♦ 8♦ Q♥ A♥ because replacing all of the clubs in the first hand with diamonds and all of the spades with hearts ...
To get a free card: If a player raises with a drawing hand, their opponent may call the bet and check to them on the next betting round, giving them a chance to get a free card to improve their hand. To gain information: If a player raises with an uncertain hand, they gain information about the strength of their opponent's hand if they are called.
Five of a kind, or five cards, is a hand that contains five cards of one rank, such as 3 ♥ 3 ♦ 3 ♣ 3 ♠ 3 ("five of a kind, threes"). It ranks above a straight flush but is only possible when using one or more wild cards, as there are only four cards of each rank in the deck. [6]
Omaha Hold Em: Pot Limit has structured betting where the maximum bet is the pot size. Play two of your four face down cards and three of the five community cards.
A pair of aces is the best pre-flop hand in Texas Hold'em Poker. In Texas hold 'em, a starting hand consists of two hole cards, which belong solely to the player and remain hidden from the other players.