This week’s question is as follows: Question: I seem to get some evil crazy bad hands recently - Ace high flush on flop beaten by small full house on river, etc… THESE are the hands I remember - I don’t remember when I got lucky with hands in my favour. Is the same true for you too that you only remember the losses not the wins? Maybe this is human nature? Maybe our brains are wired this way? Answer: Definitely normal,... 

We’ve had a reader question come in on the subject of poker. Let’s take a look: Question: I have 2 eights and a person has an ace an a king. A ten, ace, 2 sevens, and a four are on the table. Who would win me or a person??????????????????????????????????… Answer: The other person has a two pair: 7’s and Aces. While you have two pair: 7’s and 8’s. The other person with Ace King wins.  Read More →

This week’s question is a good one. Let’s have a look: Question: How many different ways are there to draw a hand of five cards, in a game of poker, that consists of an ace, a two, a three, a four, and a five of any suit? Answer: Actually, the above answers are incorrect. We have 5 cards and 4 suits. Let's, say we draw the cards in the following order: Ace, 2,3,4,5 There are 4 suits. So there 4 ways we could draw an Ace... 

This week’s question is a good one. Let’s have a look: Question: What is the Probability Getting Straight in Poker with a 52 Card Deck and a 5 Hand Where Ace is High or Low? Answer: There are 10,200 (10,240 if straight flushes are counted) possible straights, so the odds of getting a straight given a five card hand are 32359:128, or approximately 253:1.  Read More →