POKER PROBABILITIES

I said before that the higher mathematics of poker are not very important. It doesn't help a player much to know the chances of being dealt a straight flush or a full house or even a pair. Yet most of the published tables of poker probabilities are confined to that kind of information.

It does help to know the odds against improving any particular hand. A summary of these odds is given on page 94. Memorize those odds. At the very least they will tell you when the pot is offering you good odds on a speculative play.

In the following pages I give some special phases of poker mathematics.

Possible Poker Hands in a 52-Card Deck

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