Poker Statistics

You have a 31% chance of winning a 10 seater hand of hold’em if you get dealt pocket Rockets…

The biggest mistake a player can make with pocket aces is to underestimate their status as the nut hand. They are the highest pre-flop hand that can be dealt and barring a pair being dealt in the flop, a player should bet high, re-raise on the turn and trust the strength of their hand. Raise.

You have a 26.02% chance of winning a hand of Texas hold’em against 9 other players if you are dealt a pair of Kings, also referred to as Cowboys…

Always an inspiring starting hand that was memorably folded pre-flop by Phil Hellmuth in the 2001 World Series of Poker to Reagan Silber. Silber went all- in with a $ 15 000 raise; alarm bells went off for an incredibly intuitive Hellmuth who folded as Silber threw down pocket aces.

Pockets Queens will give you a 22.03% chance of winning a hand in 10 seater Texas hold’em…

I think of them as the dark horse pair, pocket cowgirls are a stronger hand than many assume; a good hand to adopt an aggressive approach with, bluff, raise and bet high. Who could forget Jamie Gold’s $12 million bluff at the WSOP 2006 when his pocket pair of queens ate a blindsided Paul Wasicka’s pair of tens.

Suited Aces and Kings in a 10 seater round of Texas hold’em offers you a 20.19% chance of taking the pot…

Known as ‘Big Slick” and “Walking back to Houston”, so called because of the assumption of Houston based poker players to bet high with this hand only to find themselves broken up against pockets aces, their long walk back to Houston would not be made in celebration. Raise if you’re holding this hand.

A pocket pair of Jacks in a 10 seater game of Texas hold’em will see you sitting with a 19.09% chance of winning the hand…

“Fishhooks”, a reference to their shape; are statistically the 5th strongest hand in hold’em, so raise if you draw them. They are the lowest valued face-card drawing a line from which a “high pair” can be dealt. Only 20% of hands are better than pocket Jacks which is why a high pair is referred to as “Jacks or better”.

Suited Aces over Queens gives you an 18.66% chance of winning the hand in 10 seater Texas hold’em…

‘Little slick’ or ‘big chick” falls into the broad category of ‘good-but-not-great’ poker hands, hands that are strong but distinctly second best. Conventional wisdom advocates not betting the farm on this hand, don’t call early position raises, watch your back after the flop and, if you feel like bluffing, play aggressively from the blinds.

A pocket royal marriage, suited Kings and Queens, gives you a handsome 18.08% chance of taking the pot in a hand of Hold’em against 9 other players…

A hand to raise with, especially in online poker with 9 other players waiting for the pot odds on the flop. Chances are that a few of the other players around the table will be sitting with face cards; the trick is to raise pre-flop and scare off the chancers this will thin the hand out and give you better odds on your face cards; if you don’t have position, play it safe and call.

Suited Aces and Jacks in the hole give you a 17.47% probability of winning the pot in a hand of 10 seater Texas hold’em…

”Blackjack”, play this hand slow and be well aware of the gap between the two cards. A player should raise pre-flop and re-raise if necessary and hope for a free card on the flop, re-raising should keep the other players guessing.

Suited Kings and Jacks (a hand commonly referred to as Kojak), as your hole cards, hold a 17.05% chance to take down the pot in a 10 player hand of Texas hold’em…

Position comes strongly into play with this hand. You need to be just off the blinds to take down the pot with a suited King John. This is a hand that needs to be factored in as part of a pre-flop strategy for possible pocket hands. You need to make a plan and stick to it.

A pocket pair of tens, TNT, holds a 16.83% chance at the pot over the other players in a round of 10 seater Texas hold’em…

A pair of dimes, famous for being in the middle of the middle of the road hand; high enough to top most pocket pairs but equally vulnerable to as many! You have to know a bit about the other players when holding this hand and play accordingly.

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