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- From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
- Newsgroups: rec.gambling
- Subject: Re: Is 4-of-a-kind a Pat Hand?
- Message-ID: <zlsiida.449@fs1.mcc.ac.uk>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 10:24:44 GMT
- References: <1992Nov9.015743.25990@walter.bellcore.com> <1dmqqfINNsoe@fido.asd.sgi.com> <1992Nov13.002534.947@trl.oz.au>
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- In article <1992Nov13.002534.947@trl.oz.au> jbm@hal.trl.OZ.AU (Jacques Guy) writes:
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- >I was surprised to read that some books on poker advise
- >staying pat with 4-of-a-kind (5-card draw, of course, it
- >goes, or rather, should have gone without saying).
-
- >Staying pat betrays a straight, a flush, a full-house, or...
- >a bluff. But discarding one card normally shows two pairs,
- >more rarely a four-flush or a 4-card straight.
- >Since two pairs is a good raising hand,
- >what is the point of trying to appear as having a straight
- >or better? In my view, it can only have players fold who
- >would not have on smelling two pairs, 4 to a flush or
- >a straight. It's a rare case, I think, when someone else
- >will have enough to stay against a pat hand, and the
- >loss of the bets by other players does not seem to
- >make worthwhile to stay pat with 4 of a kind. Does it?
-
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- Doesn't it depend very much WHICH 2 pair you have? I seem to recall the
- probability of improving 2 pair by drawing 1 is so low that you're better
- off standing pat - leaves the other players guessing. And if it's the wrong
- 2 pair you'll probably be better off folding. then again it's over 2 years
- since I played draw.
-
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- Dave Budd, MCC, Oxford Rd, Manchester, England (44|0)61-275-6033
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