This drill-exercise prototype is intended to improve pre-flop hand evaluation skills, as an alternate way for those who are not that good at memorizing tables of data, this preliminary module just asks you to order hands by value. It’s not using a random set, mostly higher value hands are shown. Play strategy tips for each combination pops up when rolled over. This is just an early user interface code trial, don’t expect too much.
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.