catwoman

Has anyone ever used on of those things? Do they actually help in a poker game? they are supposed to give you the odds of your hand winning that hand, i think anyway. ?

Dyno_Don

I've played around with an online poker calculator a few times, but not for my game play.

Some professional poker players can guess within 2% what your odds are for winning, by looking at your hand.

I don't rely on odds in a poker game, since most of the time the table cards are always different.

catwoman

Thanks Don, i wanted to hear someones opinion on these, and how you actually use them? i would not have a clue on how to go about getting the percentage of your odds on winniing, i would think it would take the fun and excitement of the game?

Dyno_Don

If you become a serious poker player, learning the poker odds to Texas Hold'em is much easier than trying to learn the odds for Omaha or 7 card stud.

I'm not sure if they have a odds calculator for those last two games.

Learning the odds in Hold'em may make you more secure when you go all-in against someone with a lessor hand, I guess.
I think most of us who think about looking at the cards on the table, will know who has the better hand.

Knowing the odds is another way to impress other players as well, if you're into that.

propiper

A simple answer is they don't help.

The do show you the odds of winning a hand but in reality that is no real help. Like Dyno_Don said it just looks good on TV.

It doesn't matter if you are 80% favored to win and lose - you still lose. Same the other way - if you are a 80% favored to lose and win - you still win.

Where it is helpful is for the players who would actually care about what they odds are and would fold knowing they are only 20% favored to win.

Online, you don't seem to run into those people a lot!

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niranja

Really only armatures could benefit from a poker calculator that works out probability's for you.
Regular poker players know the approximate odds for each hand and various situations happening. And approximate odds is all that is required as it doesn`t really matter whether you have a 64% chance of a win or a 66% chance of a win.
The odds isn`t everything though and if you know you have say a 95% chance of a win, the clever thing to do is not knowing this fact, but knowing how much you can bet so that your opponent calls instead of folds, of course you don`t want to bet too low either, because that will stop you winning so much. Poker is a game that involves many different skills not just probability's.