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In the case of Texas Hold'em, there's the 2 pocket cards and 5 on the board. This way of working out the probabilities would be the more accurate way - however, just to note, the probabilities worked out on 5 of 52 are practically the same, and far easier to calculate. Poker Equity (Pot Equity) By Greg Walker. Equity percentages in this article have been calculated using the handy (and free) PokerStove. Pot equity (or just 'Poker equity') is a mathematical application to poker that helps to explain why you should bet or check in certain situations.
The fundament of every poker strategy relies on playing the right hands pre-flop, and paying the right price (outs) when drawing to outs post-flop.
You will make yourself vulnerable if you treat different pre-flop hands the same in different positions.
In our suggested pre-flop starting hand charts we will show you hands that you can play from various positions in poker games.
The best is to only open-raise pre-flop, this prevents you to be easily readable as you would give tells if you limp and raise with different hands. Poker is complicated enough, let us not overcomplicate it.
On this page, we will hand you a poker cheat-sheet that guides you on which hands to play pre-flop, on odds and outs, and also, we will give you a poker hand ranking as an image which you can just copy to use it handily.
Check out our hand ranking cheat sheet, with which you will never doubt your hand strength.
To explain odds and outs in a simple manner i tell you this: In poker, you have around 2% equity (chance of winning after the river) for every out you have. Check the image (odds-table) below to see your equity and outs with different draws, and make a copy of it!
Now, we present you some advanced poker cheat sheets, ones that help you in finding the right pre-flop ranges when playing 6max and 9max tables in the no limit Texas hold’em variant.
Every hand on the chart that is marked yellow should be open-raised to optimally 2-3 big blinds.
ALWAYS open-raise with all your hands, unless you are in the small blind.
The hands in the “small blind pre-flop chart” that are green, you should limp, and the hands that are marked red, you should open-raise. Use an open-raise size of 2.5-4.5 big blinds depending on your stack-size in the small blind.
The charts below, you can use for cash games and sit and gos with no ante in play.
The game changes drastically when ante is in play, you should play many more hands given the added dead money. Taking this fact into consideration, we developed and designed two different pre-flop starting hand sheet sheets, and this one shows you your ranges when ante is in play.
What are antes?
Antes are forced bets that every player of the table has to pay in order to participate in the game. The ante usually costs 5-10% of the big blind and is generating a more aggressive game dynamic as there is more dead money to fight for. And This is increasing the relative value of playing a hand to folding.
Poker odds charts come in useful when you want to quickly work out the odds of winning a hand in Texas Hold'em. The most commonly used odds charts are the 'standard poker odds charts' below, which give both the percentage and ratio odds of completing your draw depending on the number of outs you have (see pot odds and drawing hands for more information).
The second set of odds charts highlight interesting odds for different situations in Texas Hold'em. These will help you get to grips with the different likelihood's and chances within the game of poker.
Standard poker odds charts.
Other poker odds charts.
Why use these odds charts?
There are currently many odds charts on the Internet at numerous poker websites. However many of these can be tricky to use. ThePokerBank provides easy to use charts highlighting the key draws on each, which makes them simple and effective to use during play.
I am confident that these odds charts are the easiest charts that you will ever use.
How to use poker odds charts.
Poker odds charts help you to determine how much you can call when trying to complete a drawing hand, such as a flush or a straight draw. By comparing your pot odds with the odds of completing your draw, you can work out whether or not it will be profitable to call certain sized bets from your opponents.
Poker odds charts are most commonly used when working out pot odds.
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It is perfectly possible to work out the odds of completing a draw in your head, but these odds charts make things much easier if you are looking for a quick reference or if you're just starting out. However, over time it is a good idea to learn the most common odds so that you no longer have to refer to any charts whilst you play.
Work out probabilities for yourself.
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Don't just take my word for it or settle for the probabilities I've listed on the site, try working out probabilities for yourself. It's not as tricky or mathsy as you might think.
My guide on how to work out preflop hand probabilities gives a nice overview on basic starting hand probabilities. For flop probabilities and the likelihood of different combinations of cards on the flop, try the article on working out flop probabilities.
Go back to the handy Texas Hold'em tools.