Texas Hold’em Pre-flop Hand Reading Drill
This drill exercise experiment is intended to improve preflop hand evaluation skills, for those who are not that good at memorizing tables of data, this module provides some start hand reading experience, hopefully faster than just playing a bunch of games. Play strategy tips for each specific combination have been included.
Check out the Start Hand Drill module.
This unit uses precomputed statistics collected in about 4 million hand simulations (monte carlo). Exact odds calculation techniques not relying on repeated “rolls of the dice” have been devised, one uses a pre-calculated intermediate table that a computer spent a month calculating.
Focusing on the top 60 of the 169 different unique combinations, the deals look like you have the most friendly dealer in town. These 60 combinations all have a better than 10% chance of winning the hand. These top combinations come up 26% of the time, suggesting folding 74% of the time may be part of a winning strategy. Suite variations cause these 60 combinations to come up in about 345 different hands out of the 1326 possible 2 card combinations.
You may also want to try the newer “Cross Cards” Hand Recognition Exercise, using a crossword game like format to test your eye’s card combination finding abilities.