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Practical Poker Math

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plus the 48 possible Sets that can come on the Flop to make<br />

144 + 48 = 192 possible 3-card Flops that will make a Full<br />

House when holding a Pocket Pair.<br />

We now have all the numbers needed to calculate the odds of<br />

flopping a Full House with a Pair in the hole:<br />

Total Possibilities = 19,600<br />

– WILLs = 192<br />

WILLNOTs = 19,408<br />

Odds of Flopping a Boat with a Pocket Pair<br />

WILLNOTs : WILLs<br />

19,408 : 192<br />

Reduce<br />

19,408 / 192 : 192 / 192<br />

101.1 : 1<br />

Pocket Pair >>> Quads<br />

To flop Quads with a Pair in the hole, 2 of the three Flop<br />

cards must be of the same rank as the Pocket Pair and the<br />

third card can be any of the remaining 48 unseen cards.<br />

With only 1 2-card combination for the first two cards and<br />

48 possibilities for the third card, the number of possible 3card<br />

Flops that WILL make Quads is<br />

1 * 48 = 48<br />

We now have all the numbers needed to calculate the odds of<br />

flopping 4 of a kind with a Pair in the hole:<br />

Total Possibilities = 19,600<br />

– WILLs = 48<br />

WILLNOTs = 19,552<br />

75<br />

Before the Flop

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