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Calculating your outs in Texas Hold’em

What are the chances? How do you calculate your chances of winning with one card to come?

Try playing at PokerStars and using our PokerStars odds calculator while playing to see the odds! First, select which forum output to use (FlopTurnRiver, TwoPlusTwo, HTML, etc.) Next, select which game. Currently the Poker Odds Calculator supports Texas Hold’em, Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo, 7 Card Stud, 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo, and Razz. Texas Holdem Heads-Up Preflop Odds. This table was created by enumerating through every possible board and opponent hole card combination for each of the 169 texas holdem preflop starting hands.

In a community card poker game like Texas Hold’em, you’ll occasionally find yourself in a situation where the betting has completed, but not all the cards are dealt. The players’ hole cards are turned over and everyone can see what each person needs to draw on the river to win the pot. So how do you work out the chances for each hand?

The first step is to count how many known cards there are and how many unknown (unseen) cards there are.

Known cards are your own hand, the community cards, plus any other exposed cards revealed for any reason — for instance, if the betting is complete and the cards are “on their backs”
Unknown cards are the rest of the deck, and any folded cards.

Other players’ folded cards are unknown because they were randomly dealt and you haven’t seen them. You might be able to make an educated guess, given how those players were betting.

The number of known cards plus unknown cards is always 52 if you’re playing with a standard deck, while a Royal Hold’em hand calculation will revolve around a 20-card deck.

The cards in that pool of unknown cards that’ll win the hand for you are your outs.

Let’s look at a common situation:

The above four cards have been revealed. You’re all-in with a 3 of Clubs and 4 of Clubs, and you see that your opponent is currently winning with a 7 of Hearts and 7 of Diamonds.

You can see eight cards. Of the 44 unknown cards, nine are clubs and three others are 2s (you can’t count the 2 of clubs twice, and you already counted it with the clubs), so you have 12 outs to win. Even though many of the cards left don’t improve your opponent’s holding or change the outcome, all the rest are considered to be outs for your opponent because they don’t help your hand.

If you had two higher clubs than your opponent’s pair of 7s, such as the Queen and the 9, then you’d have nine clubs, three non-club Jacks, PLUS the three Queens and three 9s which make a pair for you. That comes to a total of 18 outs, and in a situation where there are only two players, that means it’s an 18 out of 44 chance to win, which is almost 41%

Interestingly, the hand that is currently winning is sometimes not the favorite to win the hand — especially when three or more hands are involved in the race.

For example, on the above board, where three players are all-in with the following holdings:

A) J of Clubs, 10 of Clubs
B) 9 of Spades, 5 of Spades
C) Ace of Diamonds, 4 of Diamonds

There are 42 unknown cards, regardless of how many players were dealt in and have folded.

A) wins with any one of: nine clubs, two Queens, two Jacks, two 10s, and two 7s, making 17 outs (40.5%).
B) wins with any one of: nine spades, two remaining 9s, and the two remaining 5s that are not clubs, making 13 outs (31%).
C) has the remaining cards that don’t improve an opponent, which is just 12 of them, for 28.6% and the lowest chance to win of the three!

Here are a selection of poker tools and stuff to help you improve your game. These tools are aimed mostly toward no limit Texas Hold'em players.

If you have any problems or questions about these Texas Holdem tools, please let me know. Hope you enjoy them!

These odds charts include odds tables based on the number of outs in a hand in both ratio and percentage form. There are also a few extra odds charts for some of the more common situations you might find yourself in whilst at the Texas Hold'em tables.

Conversion odds chart (percentage & ratio conversions).

A free odds calculator for calculating the odds of winning between two all-in hands. With this calculator you can find out the odds of any two hands winning before the flop, on the flop or on the turn.

If you have a spare 5 minutes, PokerStove is a better downloadable version of an odds calculator. It's perfectly free too.

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Find out which stakes/limits you should be playing at in no limit Texas Hold'em according to the size of your bankroll. Just enter the size of your bankroll and the calculator will tell you which limits you should be playing at so that you can safely win money without fear of going broke.

This page aims to provide information on the various types of poker software to help you decide:

Whether you should use software to help you improve your game.
Which software is going to be most appropriate for you as a player.

There is a lot of poker software out there for you to choose from, so make sure you are in the know before you spend your money.

Fancy some free and unique tools from ThePokerBank? They are all very simple, but they work well and I'm sure many of you will find them useful.

SPOC - Simple Pot Odds Calculator.
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hoRatio - Ratio and percentage odds converter.
CHIMP - ICM calculator.
APE - M and Q calculator.

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This section provides information on the top poker strategy books currently out there on the market. This page also gives a quick guide to some of the better ebooks and advanced books available for the more experienced players. If you're not a big fan of books, you may find poker DVDs more useful.

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