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Why is an online poker article claiming that Straights happen more often than Three of a Kinds in a short deck?

Six Plus Hold'em is a variant of Texas Hold'em in which a short deck is used. A short deck is a deck in which all cards from 2 to 5 are removed from a standard 52-card deck, leaving only 36 cards. Due ...
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Combinatorics Pigeon Hole Poker Game

Suppose I shuffle a standard 52 card deck deck and give you 25 cards at random from it. You are then tasked with making 5 poker hands from these cards such that each card is in exactly one hand. The ...
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Game Theory Poker - Nash equilibrium: Choose between bet or raise and range of hands

I would like to understand how we choose the best action and how we compose the range for it. I have some notion on zero-sum games and minmax strategies. And I know software that does this for texas ...
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Poker Hand Probabilities in Doomtown Reloaded

The short version of my question is as follows: What is the best way to compute the probability of different hand ranks after redraw in poker? Can this easily generalise to a non-standard deck? ...
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In Texas Holdem what is the probability that the best hand is on the table?

The brute force method would involve calculating the probability of a royal flush on the table (i.e., the five community cards are A, K, Q, J, T suited). Follow this by calculating the probability ...
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Which card should we change (and to what card) to maximize the probability of getting two pairs?

In a standard $52$-card deck we change 8♧ with 10♤ and 9♧ with J♤ from another deck of cards. If we change another card, which card should we change (and to what card) to maximize the probability of ...
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Poker Combination problem

A little while ago I made a post on here and this is basically a follow up to it as I ran into some problems. Basically two people , player A and B, are playing a version of poker where there's 3 ...
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Game theory problem: Three man poker game

Mine question is from Three-Man Poker Game discussed in Nash's paper. This is a greatly simplified version of poker. The cards are of only two kinds, high and low. The three players A, B, and C ante ...
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Video Poker Probabilities

I developed a Video Poker software. Its working fine "Jacks Or Better" Now i want to improve it with statistics.I want the software to suggest which cards to hold to get the best possibility of a ...
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What are the best $3$ pocket cards in Omaha poker?

In Texas Hold'em poker, the best $3$ pocket cards are AA, KK and QQ respectively. I've been trying to find the best $3$ pocket cards in Omaha poker, where you have to use exactly $2$ pocket cards out ...
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