Imagine the odds.....

[SHAMUS TDT]

I was playing 3/6 hold 'em at Foxwoods a few months ago and I hit a hand I will never forget. I was BB and was holding 9/7 off suit. Any raise on the table and I most likely would fold, but there were 3 callers so i checked em. Flop came 779. I bet the boat and had a folder, a caller, and much to my surprise a raiser. I reraised here and was called by both. Turn comes a 7. I bet next player folded and this crazy guy raises me. So I reraise and he says to me "I guess I just walked into 4 of a kind." He calls here, I guess he just had to see em. River comes the, yep you guessed it, the 9. I got 7/9 in the pocket and 77979 on the board. I kinda felt bad for the guy and he had the read on me perfect so I gave him a chance and simply checked it to him. Finally he makes the right call and checks....we flip em and Yeah he was right I had 4 of a kind....twice in the same hand. I would love to have had a video of myself to see what kind of tell I gave up on that hand. I was trying to be so cool and calm about it but i bet you could see some big stupid smile on the corner of my mouth.

[deekay140]

Heres a hand for ya. finished a tourney and was playing side game. 6 players, 5/10 blinds ,I was small blind and first to act. I get dealt AA. First to act raises it up to 50. 2 folders,2 callers, I raise it another 100, everyone calls.....

Flop comes up A,A,10, I check, next guy (orignal raiser) bets 100, everyone calls... turn flops a Jack. I check, next guy chks, next guy goes all-in with about 350, button calls (allin also), I call, next guy calls. river pops a king.
I go allin with 650. I get called. pot sits with about 3500 in it..


on board A,A,10,J,K hands are AA, KK, JJ, QK

You wanna talk about a table on tilt.

[SHAMUS TDT]

WOW. You would think that the guy with the straight and the guy with jacks full would think that maybe they didnt have the stuff...Flopping 4 rockets had to have you're ticker thumpin.

[Locohombre]

Originally Posted by SHAMUS TDT

I was playing 3/6 hold 'em at Foxwoods a few months ago and I hit a hand I will never forget. I was BB and was holding 9/7 off suit. Any raise on the table and I most likely would fold, but there were 3 callers so i checked em. Flop came 779. I bet the boat and had a folder, a caller, and much to my surprise a raiser. I reraised here and was called by both. Turn comes a 7. I bet next player folded and this crazy guy raises me. So I reraise and he says to me "I guess I just walked into 4 of a kind." He calls here, I guess he just had to see em. River comes the, yep you guessed it, the 9. I got 7/9 in the pocket and 77979 on the board. I kinda felt bad for the guy and he had the read on me perfect so I gave him a chance and simply checked it to him. Finally he makes the right call and checks....we flip em and Yeah he was right I had 4 of a kind....twice in the same hand. I would love to have had a video of myself to see what kind of tell I gave up on that hand. I was trying to be so cool and calm about it but i bet you could see some big stupid smile on the corner of my mouth.

After all, It IS poker!

especially in a limit game! i could never check the river on that

...twice in the same hand. Unless you're playing eight card hold'em...

[SHAMUS TDT]

Dont be a tool. I had 4 of a kind 7's and drew into 4 of a kind 9's. So yeah i had 4 of a kind twice in the same hand.

Dude, if you had FOUR sevens and FOUR nines, you would need EIGHT cards. Unless you're playing in some game run by the government (where two plus two equals six) that's simply NOT possible. There are only SEVEN cards available to you.

You had four sevens and you drew THREE nines.

If your math is THAT bad, maybe it's a good thing you got all those good cards.

Jesus.

[HPG ADMIN]

I believe the odds of you hitting that runer runner are 1 in 990 ((45/2) * 44). That seems smaller than you would think. Of course the odds of you guys being in that situation in the first place are astronmically higher.

Was this in a home game or casino? If that were me I probably wouldn't have even noticed that I won the hand.

[pokerrocker]

It is a good idea to keep track of your poker play in order to find where your strengths and weaknesses lie.

[DaNutFullHouse]

This thread is the greatest abomination I've ever seen in my life, it's almost impossible to conceive of anything this stupid. If one were to eat a bowl of Alphabet Soup, then down vodka all night in order to subsequently vomit the contents of said soup all over the floor, the resulting bile and filth would be more coherent than what has been stated in this rambling, idiotic series of posts.

[pokerrocker]

[URL="http://www.learn-texas-holdem.com/poker-odds-calculator.htm"][/URL]Poker odds most often come into play when you are on a drawing hand. You'll want to know if the odds the pot is offering you are better than your actual odds of hitting your hand. To calculate your odds of making your hand, simply count the number of cards that you can consider to be "outs," cards that will complete your hand, and compare them to the number of cards that remain. For example, let's say you hold AK on a board of 3 9 5 8 and you are convinced your opponent has top pair. This means that any ace or king should give you the pot. This gives you six outs, for the three remaining aces and three remaining kings. Since you know your two cards and the four on the board, there are 46 cards you have not seen, 52 minus six. Out of those 46, six give you the win and 40 do not. This is an odds ratio of 40-to-6, which reduces to about 6.5-to-1. This means you need better than 6.5-to-1 pot odds to continue.


Although these are rough calculations, they still may be difficult to make in a game. For this reason, you should have certain poker odds committed to memory. The most important ones are as follows:


Your odds of flopping a set from a pocket pair are about 8-to-1.
Your odds of making a flush on the next card if you flop a four flush are about 4-to-1, if you get to see both cards it is closer to 2-to-1.
Your odds of making a straight on the next card if you are open-ended are around 5-to-1.


If you have four outs with one card to come you are roughly 11-to-1, two outs and you are around 22-to-1, one out and you are 45-to-1. (That one is easy. There are 46 cards in the deck and only one of them helps you, the other 45 do not.)


In a no limit game, you'll also know how much to bet so that opponents aren't getting the right odds to call to try to hit a draw (a pot-sized bet or greater will usually do the trick if you're not sure).

The odds of the 1st flop card hitting your pocket pair is 2 out of 50. The odds of the second flop card hitting your pair is 1 out of 49. The odds that the third one will not hit your pair are 48 out of 48. That is how we arrive at the first part of the equation - (2/50)*(1/49)*(48/48). The "48/48" comes out to 1 and can be dropped from the equation. The second and third scenarios will follow the logic of the first.