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- From: keith@taligent.com (Keith Rollin)
- Subject: Re: Rank of Hold`em Pocket Cards
- Message-ID: <keith-171192143318@kip-16.taligent.com>
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- References: <17938@autodesk.COM>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:47:44 GMT
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- In article <17938@autodesk.COM>, jamesr@Autodesk.COM (James Rowell) wrote:
- >
- > In Hold`em Poker for Advanced Players, Malmuth and Sklansky rate
- > the opeing hands according to their own criteria. (It's great
- > but it'd be nice to see exactly how they derived the tables.)
- >
- > It seems to me that the hands could be ranked better by a purely
- > rigorous mathematical evaluation of all the opening hands. What
- > is each hand's exact mathematical expectation to win? (I think
- > this means, if you played each opening hand head up against every
- > other opener a jillion times each, what would its percentage win
- > be in each case? Stats experts may have a better way of stating
- > what I'm stumbling on about if it makes any sense at all!) Once
- > you have this information, you can make "value judgements" (no
- > pun intended) about how you feel about playing certain hands.
- > This MUST have been done, anyone know where? OR Anyone figured
- > this out and want to share it? (I've thought about it briefly
- > and it seems ugly, but maybe I'm missing something obvious.)
-
- I'm not sure that ranking the pocket cards is possible or feasible.
- Position plays SUCH a large part of the game that you'd probably have to
- generate a chart for each position, also taking into account the number of
- folders, callers, and raisers before you. Also, because so many cards are
- visible and common, bluffing and psychology as well as the tightness of the
- game are significant factors.
-
- Personally, I don't think a "more accurate" chart would be useful. Malmuth
- and Sklansky have given me what I needed with their table -- a rough
- guideline of what can be played and when.
-
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- Keith Rollin
- Phantom Programmer
- Taligent, Inc.
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