AmericanAirlines
12-27-2002, 07:41 PM
Hi Everyone,
Another poster was looking for percentage win rate by starting hand data.
This lead me to think about starting hand standards.
While looking over a table of win rates by percent I found my self thinking, "Should the rule of thumb be, Never start with a hand that doens't win more than it's fair share?"
Fair share being, for example, that heads up, the hand should win 50% of the time or more.
I suppose there should be some allowanance for implied odds, especially in two tier structured games.
But for the CO flat $5 game perhaps fair share is a good starting point.
In any event, I'm grappling with how to keep my starting hands straight, again because of my primarily stud background. Not used to thinking about all the parameters that seem to go into a decision in HE.
Just about every book on HE goes into detailed starting had reccomendations. I rarely see any mathematical justification that a given hand is correct to start with.
Any thoughts?
Sincerely,
Frank
Another poster was looking for percentage win rate by starting hand data.
This lead me to think about starting hand standards.
While looking over a table of win rates by percent I found my self thinking, "Should the rule of thumb be, Never start with a hand that doens't win more than it's fair share?"
Fair share being, for example, that heads up, the hand should win 50% of the time or more.
I suppose there should be some allowanance for implied odds, especially in two tier structured games.
But for the CO flat $5 game perhaps fair share is a good starting point.
In any event, I'm grappling with how to keep my starting hands straight, again because of my primarily stud background. Not used to thinking about all the parameters that seem to go into a decision in HE.
Just about every book on HE goes into detailed starting had reccomendations. I rarely see any mathematical justification that a given hand is correct to start with.
Any thoughts?
Sincerely,
Frank