Tournament Poker for Advanced Players
 

I'm reading the book and I came across this:

The author has a system for beginner no limit tournament players. He taught it to a female player as follows:

1. If someone else has raised in front of you, move in all your chips with aces, kings, or ace-king suited. Otherwise fold.
2. If not one else has raised in front of you, move in all your chips with any pair, any ace-other suited, ace-king(suited or offsuit), or two suited connected cards, except for four-trey or trey-deuce. [123]

He goes on to elaborate, "Notice that the hands that she was to move in with(again, when no one raised in front of her) comprised about 13 percent of all the two card cominations.(If you don't know how I got that, stop reading this book right now. You are not ready for it. You don't know enough about poker. And, you deserve to lose.)" [124]


"Notice that the hands that she was to move in with(again, when no one raised in front of her) comprised about 13 percent of all the two card cominations.(If you don't know how I got that, stop reading this book right now. You are not ready for it. You don't know enough about poker. And, you deserve to lose.)" [124]

How did he get that? why only 13%?

Thanks in advance

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I'm sorry but you deserve to go broke and be forced to turn tricks at a truck stop in order to feed yourself.

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"Notice that the hands that she was to move in with(again, when no one raised in front of her) comprised about 13 percent of all the two card cominations.(If you don't know how I got that, stop reading this book right now. You are not ready for it. You don't know enough about poker. And, you deserve to lose.)" [124]

How did he get that? why only 13%?

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POTY

I'm sorry, I'm sure someone will give you a sincere, thought-out answer. It just won't be me, not today...

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I'm sorry but you deserve to go broke and be forced to turn tricks at a truck stop in order to feed yourself.

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So, you don't know either?

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Ok... Here it comes. Are you any good at maths? Combinatorics?

There are 1326 possible distinct ways to be dealt any starting hand in Texas Hold'em. Sklansky's all-in hands are any pair, any ace-suited, any suited connector down except 43s and 32s, and AKo...

So...

Pairs:
AA-22 is 13 pairs and since there's 6 possible ways to be dealt a pair we have 13x6=78 combinations

Suited hands:
There are 4 ways to be dealt a suited hand. We have AKs down to 54s which is 10 hands. Then we have AQs-A2s which is 11 hands, so 21 in total. That makes 21x4=84 combinations.

A random hand like AKo can be dealt in 12 different ways. So we have 78+84+12=174 combinations. Remember there's 1326 different combinations in total?

174/1326 = 0,131 ~ 13%

Voila! Now that you know, you can continue reading the book [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Re: Tournament Poker for Advanced Players
 

Is this a belate April Fool's topic? Wow, you really got me there for a sec...

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I think Sklanski deserves a kick in the nuts for being an arrogant git.

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I think Sklanski deserves a kick in the nuts for being an arrogant git.

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Why? He's just stating that understanding simple maths is fundamental for any ambitious poker player. It doesn't take long to understand and it isn't difficult.

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I think Sklanski deserves a kick in the nuts for being an arrogant git.

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The title of the book is "Tournament Poker for Advanced Players" ... if you don't understand the 13% thing, then you shouldn't be reading that book yet.

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Who's this 'Sklanski' guy?