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What would be the most transparent way to show a fair shuffle literally possible?
I want to make an ios app, for fun to improve my dev skills, to do what no other app/poker site has done and be completely transparent.
I just want to match casinos shuffling as imperfect as that may be, no quantum, no true shuffle, no blockchain…
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What is your read about this hand?
It's $1/$3 no limit holdem. I had $450 stack. I had A⋄J⋄ in early position.
PreFlop:
I raised to $15.
A mid position player with large stack size (about $700) re-raised to $45
Everyone folded to me.
I called.
Flop:
Flop came A♥ 3⋄ 7♠
I…
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N00b ethics question about calculators in online poker (or choker)
(Actually, I'm asking motivated by a calculator for choker = chess + poker, but I believe the same applies to regular poker, Texas hold'em or whatever.)
My context: I played poker a bit, mostly online and mostly never for money, around 2010-2015. I…
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Breaking a pair tie
Let's say two players have the following hands:
Player A: 2♦️, 2♣️
Player B: 2♠️, 2♥️
How would this play out? Is it a split pot?
I'm a noob trying to wrap my head around some of the rules. As I understand it, a "kicker" is normally used to break…
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Online Poker Hosting - Legal in USA?
I'm a developer and have a poker site that I've created.
I have some questions that I need advise on to avoid going down the wrong paths and being taken away in cuffs by some federal agency.
Right now my site is using testnet bitcoins to simulate…
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What is the probabilty that any of your opponents has any of specifict hands?
I'm creating a database of all choices of 7 cards out of 52. It's quite flexible because it allows to compare choices like:
MyHand+FLOP+TURN+RIVER and OpponentsHand+FLOP+TURN+RIVER
and tell whether my hand is winning or it's a tie. But I'm facing…
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Graphic showing the money travelling clockwise
It's said in poker that 'money travels clockwise', from early position toward the button. Has anyone ever constructed a graphic from live data showing this occurring? I'm sure there are stats showing the button winning more than UTG, but would be…
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New school and old school
I heard a lot of this two way of play, but I actually don't understand in which they differs. Which are the differences between old school of poker and new school?
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Introduction to Probability with Texas Hold’em Examples #5
You are playing a hand of poker against one individual. Your hole cards are 8♦, 2♦ and your opponent’s hole cards are K♣, Q♣. The four cards on the table after the flop and the turn are J♦, 9♦, T♠, 5♥. Your opponent goes all in after the turn and…
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Why are ICM values so high?
Often, in poker tournaments that use ICM, the value of the chips is higher than the actual prize pool. They also are multiples of large numbers (1,000 seems the most common).
I'm assuming this is solely to make stack sizes sound big, but I'm…
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What hands are worth raising with in late position to capture the antes in five card draw poker?
The game is eight-handed, the antes are 1/8th of a bet, meaning there is one bet in the pot to start.
You probably wouldn't want to bet two small pair in early position, because of the possibility of getting multiple callers. (And the other…
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How likely is a full house on a paired board vs. a double paired board?
Recently I had a situation where I made a flush on the turn but my opponent made a full house on the river. The board was J5566 so it wasn't too difficult for anyone to make a full house in this case (just need to be holding a 5 or a 6). He bet half…
user8462
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Help me remember this EPIC hero call?
Please help me remember this famous hand. It was an epic hero call with like 6 or 10 high. They were outdoors, which is odd for poker tournaments, and it was the final hand. There was lots of wind which ruffled the guy's long hair.
Basically the guy…
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What Should You Do When You Miss the Flop
What to do when you miss everything?
Please correct me when I'm wrong, but you only make your hand roughly 1/3 of the time. So, your opponent makes his hand 1/3 of the time too. So, not making my hand is not necessarily cause to give up on the hand…
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Host Website or App for Limit Hold ‘em Tournaments
Looking to find an app or website where I can host a poker tournament that is limit hold em. I’d like to have the ability to raise the limit every 30 min.
For context, we have a time limit poker tournament every year and we use a service called The…
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