Preflop win percentages

#1 1st September 2010, 4:41 AM

The preflop odds that Harrington gives in his book seem a bit of. He reckons that 2 over cards vs. 2 lower cards (i.e AKo vs. 86o) wins 5:3. He did say approximately but I'd like more accurate guidelines. I say that they are inaccurate because of I was playing around with pokerstove and they simply don't add up

#2 1st September 2010, 5:03 PM

thats around 62.5: 37.5 isn't it? What are the actual figures?

#3 1st September 2010, 5:35 PM

In your example 5:3 would be close to right. AKo is about a 63/37 favorite over 86o, which is roughly 5:3. Reduce 5:3 and you get 1.67:1. 37*1.67 = ~62. So 5:3 is a good rounded approximation.

#4 1st September 2010, 5:59 PM

I agree that the 5 to 3 approximation is pretty close to what you will find over 10,000 hands plus.

#5 1st September 2010, 11:46 PM

get pokerstove to calculate hands like that for you. It saves a lot of time doing the math yourself.

#6 2nd September 2010, 12:48 AM

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Originally Posted by straytfrush

get pokerstove to calculate hands like that for you. It saves a lot of time doing the math yourself.

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Originally Posted by pat3392

The preflop odds that Harrington gives in his book seem a bit of. He reckons that 2 over cards vs. 2 lower cards (i.e AKo vs. 86o) wins 5:3. He did say approximately but I'd like more accurate guidelines. I say that they are inaccurate because of I was playing around with pokerstove and they simply don't add up

#7 2nd September 2010, 4:12 PM

Well I played around with pokerstove and I was wrong, 5:3 is fairly close.

I'm not good with ratios at all, can someone please explain how to convert pot odds into a percentage? For example, 1.7:1, what percent is that?

#8 2nd September 2010, 5:26 PM

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Originally Posted by pat3392

I'm not good with ratios at all, can someone please explain how to convert pot odds into a percentage? For example, 1.7:1, what percent is that?

Just posted this yesterday:

http://www.cardschat.com/showpost1556205-post11.html

It seems complicated when written out, but just think it through and practice it a couple times and it becomes second nature. You get to the point where you really don't have to calculate it, you can just see the ratio and subconsciously estimate the percentage and vice-versa.

Taking your example of 1.7:1... (1.7+1)=2.7, 100/2.7=37% (the :1 part). 37%*1.7=63% (the 1.7: part). Or alternatively, for that last step you can just subtract 100%-37%=63% to get the same answer... probably easier that way. So, the answer is 1.7:1 = 63% to 37%. Often written out as 63/37.

#9 3rd September 2010, 1:54 AM

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Originally Posted by dmorris68

Just posted this yesterday:

http://www.cardschat.com/showpost1556205-post11.html

It seems complicated when written out, but just think it through and practice it a couple times and it becomes second nature. You get to the point where you really don't have to calculate it, you can just see the ratio and subconsciously estimate the percentage and vice-versa.

Taking your example of 1.7:1... (1.7+1)=2.7, 100/2.7=37% (the :1 part). 37%*1.7=63% (the 1.7: part). Or alternatively, for that last step you can just subtract 100%-37%=63% to get the same answer... probably easier that way. So, the answer is 1.7:1 = 63% to 37%. Often written out as 63/37.

Great fantastic I've been trying to figure that out for some time now cheers!

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