Stolen from the desk of David Sasseman

Probability That None Of Your Opponents Match Their Hole Card On The Flop. Number of Opponents VS. Flop Does Match Hole Card 1 0.65 2 0.40 3 0.25 4 0.15 5 0.10 6 0.05 Some conclusions: (1) Against four to five foes it is certain someone has flopped something. That is why it is ‘fit [...]

Are pockets pairs as good (or as bad) as you think?

Up against an overpair? Well we knew that was bad, but looks like you can still expect to get lucky just under one in four hands. Check out the chart below and see if anything surprises you.

I had outs!

 Just because you had outs, doesn’t mean it was a good decision. Another entry from the Sasseman Files.

The probability of face cards hitting

Another entry from the Sasseman Files, this time in the form of useful probabilities. Find out just how likely it is that your over-cards will hit.

From the Sasseman Files

Poker journalist and friend David Sasseman has turned me on to a few useful statistics to post next to my online gambling machine (computer.) Allow me to share: Those pocket rockets only have a one in three chance of holding up to a full table, so get those ugly mugs to fold pre-flop I say! [...]