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Math problem with playing cards

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chuckywang

Lifer
Jan 12, 2004
20,133
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Originally posted by: amoeba
Originally posted by: Viper GTS
Originally posted by: amoeba
everybody folds to you and you look down and see that you hold KK.

should you call or fold?

PokerStove says you have 47.3% pot equity vs 52.7 for him.

If you call that consistently you'll lose all your money.

Text results appended to pokerstove.txt

154,107,360 games 0.265 secs 581,537,207 games/sec

Board:
Dead:

equity (%) win (%) / tie (%)

Hand 1: 52.7071 % [ 00.49 00.04 ] { AA-KK, AKs, AKo }
Hand 2: 47.2929 % [ 00.44 00.04 ] { KK }


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Viper GTS


using poker stove is kind of cheating but yes the correct answer is fold.

Yep because KK vs. AA is a much worse shake than AK vs. KK.
 

amoeba

Diamond Member
Aug 7, 2003
3,162
1
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Originally posted by: chuckywang
Originally posted by: amoeba
Originally posted by: Viper GTS
Originally posted by: amoeba
everybody folds to you and you look down and see that you hold KK.

should you call or fold?

PokerStove says you have 47.3% pot equity vs 52.7 for him.

If you call that consistently you'll lose all your money.

Text results appended to pokerstove.txt

154,107,360 games 0.265 secs 581,537,207 games/sec

Board:
Dead:

equity (%) win (%) / tie (%)

Hand 1: 52.7071 % [ 00.49 00.04 ] { AA-KK, AKs, AKo }
Hand 2: 47.2929 % [ 00.44 00.04 ] { KK }


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Viper GTS


using poker stove is kind of cheating but yes the correct answer is fold.

Yep because KK vs. AA is a much worse shake than AK vs. KK.


yes but you must take in to account that AK happens much more often. just in this case due to you holding 2 Ks, it doesn't happen often enough.