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Advice wanted re online tourney strategy

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    #32
    DapperGent
    Registered Users Posts: 4,838 ✭✭✭DapperGent


    Drakar wrote:
    With 22, you have 2 cards remaining which would beat the AA. Isn't that roughly 2 cards in 48, ie a 1 in 24 shot at winning for which you receive 1 in 5.8 odds?
    I'm sure it's with either the entire board to come or two cards to come which reduces the odds somewhat. Plus the chance of making straights and flushes. Though the Aces break some of your straights and we
    don't know their suits.

    On the odds calculater AhAc vs 2s2d gives the ducks an 18.5% chance. In or around 4-1 or ample odds to call with. This goes up to 20% or so for 88 which doesn't have the straight problems. Though this is all with the Aces being different suits to our pocket pair.


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    #33
    Drakar
    Registered Users Posts: 1,531 ✭✭✭Drakar


    Yeah that was me being stoopid and forgetting that this was before the flop, so you have 5 chances at getting that 1 in 24 shot.


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    #34
    Lafortezza
    Registered Users Posts: 8,806 ✭✭✭Lafortezza


    There's an article on cardplayer at the moment talking about Tournament strategy,http://www.cardplayer.com/poker_magazine/archives/showarticle.php?a_id=14300
    If you're small stack and about to be swallowed up by the blinds in the next few hands its worth gambling on 56s or 89o instead of trying to wait for something like A9 or KJ. The A9 or KJ hands are mostly likely to be dominated (As HJ said earlier in the thread) by someone calling with AJ or better.
    AKo vs 89o is about 63% in favour of the AK, so you've a 1 in 3 chance of doubling through when the pressure is on. Not a bad option compared to your
    KJo called by AJ being a nasty dog with only a 26% chance to win.

    Live cards is what its all about!


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