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• Poker Hands Odds Table
• Poker Hand Ranks And Odds Against
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• Poker Hand Ranks And Odds College Football
• Poker Hand Ranks And Odds Ncaa Basketball

In a prior installment on Badeucey, we established a set of guidelines for the starting hands we should tend to play given that we were the first player to enter the pot. In this issue, the focus will be on what hands are playable when the pot has already been opened, and the factors that should be considered in order to determine if our holding is better played as a smooth-call or as a three-bet.

Pat Hands

In our analysis of poker hand ranking, we used winning probability as a metric to rank each. On top you see the ranking of all poker hands. You can click on the name to find more statistics for this category. There is also a more detailed table, where the categories are broken up into their ranks. The category All Hands is broken up into 10 groups: Royal Flush, Straight Flush, Four of a Kind, Full House, Flush, Straight, Three of a Kind, Two Pair, One Pair and High Card. Example: 4♥️5♥️6♥️7♥️8♥️ Odds of drawing: 1 in 64,767. The straight flush is.

Whenever you hold a playable pat hand, it is almost always in your best interest to reraise the opener and try to get the pot heads-up. A seven low with at a good three card underneath such as 2 3 5 6 7 increases the odds of scooping against a single opponent.

Some caution needs to be exercised with eight lows such as 2 5 6 7 8 and 3 45 6 8 where we essentially have no badugi hand. If we are up against an early position raiser, both of these hands should probably hit the muck.

This advice may seem overly tight, particularly with 3 4 5 6 8, however a solid player opening from early position will often either have a badugi or a very strong three-card badugi that they mostly plan to showdown unimproved. If our opponent is intent on going to the end regardless what happens in the hand, we are getting freerolled from the beginning.

The situation is different when the initial raiser originates from the cutoff or later position as this range will be weaker and not as showdown bound. In that circumstance, we should three-bet 3 4 5 6 8 in the hope that the pot is played heads-up and our opponent chooses to fold sometime before showdown.

One-Card Draws

Any made badugi that is an eight or lower should be reraised for both value and protection. If the raise comes from a steal position, reraising a rougher nine badugi such as 4 6 7 9 is also correct especially if they are loose and often drawing three. Since the underlying draw of 4 6 7 draw is quite rough, keeping the nine is probably best.

Holdings such as 2 5 6 9 can go either way. In straight Deuce-to-Seven Triple Draw we would always draw two in order to try and make stronger lows and any other nine we catch later on in the hand will help us in the same manner. However, in Badeucey discarding the 9 is forever eliminating one of our better badugi outs.

Therefore, with a hand like 2 5 6 9, we should tend to reraise and be flexible with our drawing decision depending on the remainder of the preflop action. If our reraise is successful in getting the pot heads-up we should probably keep the nine and draw one, and if it goes off multi-way we should opt to draw two.

When you hold very good one-card draws with a tri such as 2 3 5 7 or 2 3 4 8 where you plan to draw one, you also want to three-bet in the hopes of isolating your opponent. Even if we bump into a badugi, with premium draws to both sides your equity and playability is often quite good. In addition, we don’t want our reraising and drawing one range to be entirely comprised of badugis.

Three-Card Badugis (i.e. Two-Card Draws)

With three-card badugis, the decision between three-betting or just smooth-calling is often close. When making it we should take into account the opener’s position, your position, your hand, and the skill level of the players left to act behind you. For example, facing a somewhat tight early position opener with weak players in the blinds, flatting your entire three-card badugi range has merit in order to invite action players to enter the pot.

However, in most other situations it is usually best to reraise premium three-card badugis such as 2-3-5, 2-4-5, 3-4-5, 2-4-6, 2-3-7, and 2-4-7. There’s a value component to three-betting these hands in addition to increasing our scooping chances. In addition, as we discussed last issue, these hands effectively realize their equity relative to our opponent.

In particular, 3-4-5 gains tremendously getting the pot heads-up as it can win the badugi side unimproved, but can struggle to make strong lows due to potential straight draws. Hands such as 2-3-7 and 2-4-7 will not often win the badugi side unimproved, however, these holdings have strong two-way potential and three-betting them helps balance against doing so with only the lowest of our tri holdings.

Weaker three-card badugis should mostly be flatted and which hands are playable are a function of your opponent’s playing style, the position from which he opened, and your position. For example, if a tight player opens from first position and we are one seat over in the hijack we should fold a mediocre hand like 2-6-8.

While position helps, it’s hard to envision that our opponent is opening many worse hands thus we should not seek out an uphill battle with so many players left to act behind us. In this situation, the bottom of our continuing range would probably be holdings such as 3-4-6 and 2-4-8. These hands make stronger badugis than 2-6-8 and also have the potential to reduce our incomplete to a three-card four.

Blind Defense

From the big blind you are getting good odds to continue against a single raise, however, it is difficult to defend profitably with as many hands as you can in another game such as Omaha eight-or-better. In Omaha hi-lo, you can take a flop with a somewhat junky hand and have a villain’s A A 2 3 drawing nearly dead once those three cards come down. However, in Badeucey your rough draws will only make rough hands, thus when you are up against the very top of your opponent’s range no miracle can save you.

When an opponent opens from early position, we must respect that range and play somewhat tight. While we can probably defend with any three-card seven or a smooth eight we must resist the temptation to play rougher holdings such as 3 7 8 that have reverse implied odds.

Cutoff and button opens are weaker, thus given the pot odds we can mostly defend any holding that we would have opened from those positions had the situation been reversed. For example, we can defend un-suited 2-3, 2-4, 2-5, and 2-7 holdings as well as a two-suited hand such as 2 3 7. Three-card badugis such as 5-6-8 and 3-7-8 are borderline plays; calling a button raise is fine but it is probably best to fold them against a cutoff open.

It may not seem like we are defending a lot of hands but the responsibility is also borne by the small blind to ensure that an over aggressive late position opener will not automatically profit. Against a very loose raiser the best response is to punish them with more three-bets with your good hands as opposed to loosening up your calling standards significantly. In addition, someone playing too many hands from late position will often get punished later on in the hand as they are usually playing rough draws with reverse implied odds.

In Badeucey, getting too far out of line before the first draw will often cost you money in the later rounds. A solid foundation of starting holdings is required to successfully navigate the later streets. ♠

Kevin Haney is a former actuary of MetLife but left the corporate job to focus on his passions for poker and fitness. He is co-owner of Elite Fitness Club in Oceanport, NJ and is a certified personal trainer. With regards to poker he got his start way back in 2003 and particularly enjoys taking new players interested in mixed games under his wing and quickly making them proficient in all variants. His new mixed-games website Counting Outs is a great starting resource for a plethora of games ranging from the traditional to the exotic. He can be reached at haneyk612@gmail.com.

Poker is a very technical casino game and you can easily be overwhelmed if you are just starting out. There are different variations of online poker games each with slightly different rules.

Poker Hands Odds Table

However, the ten different types of hands you can make are constant.

Finding an easy way for a beginner to learn these hands will help you get started quickly. With this poker hand cheat sheet, you’ll get an overview of all the poker hands you can make.

While there will be slight variations as you play different poker games, this should not deter you from getting started with the basics.

Highest value hands in Poker – the Flushes

Each hand in poker is made up of five cards. Depending on the game variant, players can make that hand from different numbers of their own and community cards.

Poker hands are ranked in value and the rules that govern the content of each hand are the same:

• The highest value hand is the Royal Flush – a straight run of five cards with values from 10 to Ace all in the same suit.
• Straight Flush is the next highest – all cards are from the same suit and run sequentially, e.g. 6 to 10 of spades or 9 to K of diamonds.

Middle value hands in poker

After the Flushes, there are several other hands that you can form to hit a win in poker. In order of value, they are:

• Four of a Kind – which involves four cards of the same rank but different suits.
• A Full House – which is a combination of three of a kind and a pair.
• A Flush – five cards from the same suit, not in any sequence.
• A Straight – five cards in a sequence, but not from the same suit.
• Three of a Kind – three cards with the same rank, but from different suits.

Lowest value hands in poker

The last three poker hands are the lowest-ranked and are:

• Two pair – Two different pairs with all cards being from any suit.
• Pair – two cards of the same rank but different suits.
• High card – This is only used when you have not made any of the hands previously described.

In this case, the highest card in your hand is played. One other point to remember is that if you play the same hand as the dealer, the value of the cards within that hand determines the winner.

For example, if both have four-of-a-kind, then four kings would win over four sixes.

Poker hand odds

To successfully apply what you have learnt, you need to understand the odds of different hands in various poker games.

Generally, poker hands are played with 5 cards, however, there are some variants that use 7 cards. These games have higher odds for making specific hands compared to 5-card poker, although not in all cases.

For a Royal flush, a 5-card poker game has odds of this occurring of 0.00015% compared to 0.0032% in a 7-card poker game.

However, the odds of getting a high card are 50.1% in a 5-card poker game compared to 17.4% in 7-card poker.

Using Poker tools

There are different forms of poker tools you can use to improve your skill. The most popular type is the poker simulator.

This tool mimics a real poker round, however, you will be playing against a computerized dealer.

The good thing is that it is free. Another poker tool is the Propoker tool. This is an equity calculator for various versions of poker games.

If you want a tool made for beginners, you can check out the Hold’em Poker trainer. This simple tool provides you with free online exercises to practice ranking hands, making the best hand, and more.

Poker Hand Cheat Sheet Conclusion

This poker hand cheat sheet is going to be helpful when playing in the real world of poker but there is one other important thing to bear in mind. That is positional play, which relates to your position at the table in relation to the dealer.

The three positions are termed early, middle, and late.

The early position is usually considered to be the first three seats to the left of the dealer and is considered weak. The middle position is considered better since it offers the opportunity to play based on what the early position players have. The late position is the strongest as you’ll have seen all other players’ actions.

Poker Hand Ranks And Odds Against

However, when playing poker online, you play against the dealer only, regardless of whether you are playing virtual or live poker games.

For beginners, having a good grasp of the different poker hands and their respective rankings will stand you in good stead. This is where our poker hand cheat sheet will come in handy and help you get ahead.

Of course, the more you play the more familiar you’ll become with the different hands. Then you can test out your skill for free using some of the online poker tools available, before playing for real money at your favorite casino site.

Rank Of Poker Hands Chart

FAQs

Poker Hand Ranks And Odds College Football

The top 10 hands:
1. Royal flush – A, K, Q, J, 10, all the same suit.
2. Straight flush – Five sequenced cards in the same suit.
3. Four of a kind – Four cards with the same rank.
4. Full house – Any three of a kind with a pair.
5. Flush – Five cards with the same suit that’s not in a sequence.
6. Straight – Five sequenced cards that’s not of the same suit.
7. Three of a kind – Any three cards with the same rank.
8. Two pair – Two pairs of different ranks and suits.
9. Pair – Two cards with the same rank.
10. High Card – None of the above but you have the highest card.

It’s an Ace-High Royal Flush or Ace, King, Queen, Jack, Ten with the same suit.

Poker Hand Ranks And Odds Ncaa Basketball

Any big pocket pair, high cards like Ace, King, Queen, and Jack. Always play big-suited connectors and big-connectors off suit.