A lesson in kickers

[jay_shark]

Here i'm going to locate the median for a random hand given any two live cards .

Ace is the highest and i'll associate the number 14 to it . Likewise , kings, queens and jacks are given the numbers 13, 12 and 11 respectively .

AK = 27 KQ= 25
AQ = 26 KJ= 24
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A2 = 16 K2= 15

Now all we do is sum up all the values for all 2 live hands .

I'll save you the work , but the median is 17.33 . This means that if your hands kicker values are greater than 17 and a third , then your hand is in a better kicker situation . Hands like 10-7 add up to 17 which is slightly below the required value . I'll usually raise with all hands that sum up to 18 or greater .

10-8 = 18> 17.333
9-8 = 17< 17.333
J-7 = 18> 17.33 etc .

Hope you find this post fun !!