Mission statement
Before I jump head first into my first "real" post, I thought it would be good to describe the purpose of this blog. In approximate order of importance, areCommentary on the continuing development of...
View ArticleTowards a Meaningful Ordering of Hands
OverviewMany poker books include chapters with hand rankings, and many software tools (including some at propokertools.com) support specifying the top N% of hands. Almost immediately the question...
View ArticleDownloadable Hand Orderings
By popular demand, here are the generated hand orderings as described in this blog entry :Hold'em hand orderingOmaha-hi hand orderingOmaha-hi/lo hand ordering
View ArticleWell that's embarassing...
Last night I did something I rarely do. I complained about my bad run at poker - to my wife, no less (who is an angel and very supportive). "I just feel like I can't beat this game anymore," is...
View ArticleProPokerTools gets a Makeover
ProPokerTools gets a MakeoverProPokerTools has been around for a while now, and I've been humbled by the continued encouragement and support of the poker community. I've generally been proud of the...
View ArticleFixing Razz
Trying to Get it RightJoel Spolsky wrote a famous piece on how to do job interviews. His mantra throughout the article is that you want to hire people who are "Smart" and "Get Things Done" (I hope he...
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Another (smaller) razz fixFixed a bug today involving dependent probabilities in razz. In a nutshell, hands with range syntax in both the first two and last cards were overweighting paired cards on...
View ArticleGenerating all 3-way holdem matchups
By user request, I have generated equities for all 3-way races between holdem hand types (ex 22 vs. AJs vs KQo) and stored the values in a file. My new quad-core laptop is still catching its breath...
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Downloadable ProPokerTools 0.1 is done!I promised myself I would release a downloadable version of ProPokerTools in 2010. The bad news? I did not reach my goal. The good news? I am only three days...
View ArticleWhence PQL?
"A-ha!" vs. "Ho-hum"In the popular imagination, innovation comes from a flash of genius - a sudden, almost supernatural insight that often catches the inventor himself unawares. In reality, most...
View ArticleAK vs half-dead pair (User Request)
I got a fun question from a user today. "How does AK (suited or unsuited) fare against any pair assuming that one of the pair's set outs are dead?"We can answer this with a little PQL hackery. I say...
View ArticleOne Year of the Odds Oracle!
Summing it UpIt has been just about a year since the first closed beta of the Odds Oracle 0.1 came out. As of the writing of this article, we are on version 1.8.5 and just on the cusp of 2.0. User...
View Article6-Handed Hand Orderings
In a previous blog post, I explained the algorithm used to generate hand-orderings. ProPokerTools has had hand orderings for hold'em, omaha, omaha-8, big-O, and big-O8 for quite some time now. The...
View ArticleEquity Squared
Until recently, there have been two flavors of hand rankings provided by ProPokerTools. The first kind is created using a program (described in previous posts) to 'evolve' an ordering over time. The...
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