can someone tell me why A4o has 57% of winning in Hold'em? [Archive]

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11-22-2005, 04:57 PM

i think read that in Skalansky's Tournament book. is there an easy formula for figuring out that stat?

LetYouDown

11-22-2005, 05:16 PM

Assuming it's heads up and the other person's hand is entirely random, the formula is www.pokerstove.com (http://www.pokerstove.com)

AaronBrown

11-22-2005, 05:55 PM

As LetYouDown suggested, there is no easy formula, but there is a good computer program that does it for you. In principle the calculation is simple, you just consider every possible set of 7 cards held by the other player and on the board; then count up how many times you win versus losing. But that would take a long time to do by hand.

11-22-2005, 06:25 PM

Thanks! i just downloaded it. as for heads-up, it's easy to calculate. i tried doing four handed, but it would've taken probably about 10 minutes to get the results. /images/graemlins/smirk.gif

pzhon

11-22-2005, 06:34 PM

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i tried doing four handed, but it would've taken probably about 10 minutes to get the results.

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Change from Enumerate All to Monte Carlo. It doesn't take long to get that A4o wins about 27.2% against 3 random hands.