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Our Heroscore Number 5 is ‘the Godfather of poker’ and wrote what is known as the ‘bible of poker’
@Doyle Brunson has been on the circuit for more than 50 years and has set at least as many records and milestones over his amazing poker career.
He is a two-time World Series of Poker champion and is one of only four players to have won the Main Event in two consecutive years (1976 and 1977),
'Texas Dolly' owns 10 WSOP bracelets and was the first player to win both a WSOP and a World Poker Tour title.
His Super System is one of the top-selling poker books of all time.
In 2006 Brunson was voted 'the most influential force in the poker world' by Bluff Magazine. Almost ten years later, he is still among the poker world’s leading influencers and one of the best-loved and revered ambassadors of the game.
Photo: http://www.doylebrunson.com
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HeroScore Countdown: Number 6, Patrick Bruel
If you're still wondering what HeroScore is, find out in this post by @Nicolas Levi!
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Our Heroscore Number 6 is truly a No Limit talent!
Charismatic singer and actor @Patrick Bruel attained super stardom in France in the 1990’s. His talent proved too big for the music-cinema-theatre stages and he went on to conquer the live poker scene as well.
In 1998 Bruel won the most coveted trophy in poker - a WSOP bracelet, and 16 years later, he scored his biggest cash to date with a 4th place finish in the WPT LAPC.
He was instrumental in bringing the poker boom to France, notably as one of the founders of Winamax, and has since been a central figure within the country’s biggest and most devoted poker community.
Patrick Bruel is an iconic and inspiring ambassador of the game and we can only say ‘thank you’ on behalf of poker and send him our belated birthday wishes (14/05/1959)!
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3 More Days to Go until Official Launch of Heroscore!
Dear Ranking Heroes,
As you well know, we believe poker means #MoreThanMoney! We've developed a unique feature and ranking to measure more than results&winnings, but also the influence, popularity, and contribution of the members of the poker community!
Please help us in this endeavour by supporting us on Thunderclap:
and on Facebook, by joining and sharing the event dedicated to the official launch on May 18th:
Thank you all and stay tuned for the HeroScore Countdown! Coming up next - Number 6. Who do you think it is?..
More about HeroScore in this post by @Nicolas Levi:
Annie RKH 16 May 2015
Thanks to all new and veteran RankingHero members for the interest and support for this exciting new feature! Please join us on Facebook and Thunderclap to give a well-deserved shoutout for HeroScore :)
@Alessio Bianchi @William Calder @Mark Duguid @John Thomson @Emty @Skilful @Andrew Brisland @B165L1CK75
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HeroScore Countdown: Number 7, Antonio Esfandiari
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Our Heroscore Number 7 works his magic on the live tournament scene!
Two WPT titles, three WSOP bracelets, and the biggest live tournament cash in poker history - @Antonio Esfandiari ‘The Magician’ seems to know all the tricks to live poker!
In 2012, ten years after scoring his first live ITM finish, Esfandiari exploded in mainstream media and captured the popular imagination by winning $18,346,673 with his 1st place in the $1,000,000 buy-in Big One for One Drop.
He was a fixture of televised poker before Black Friday and has had a continued media presence with numerous TV projects, shows and appearances.
Today the former professional magician considers himself ‘blessed, plain and simple’. As a proud young father with little left to prove in poker, he says: ‘I play poker to live, not live to play poker’ (RKH interview).
Photo: wsop.com
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Heroscore Countdown: Number 8, Dan Bilzerian
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Our Heroscore Number 8 rules supreme in social media!
While there is little evidence about @Dan Bilzerian's actual poker career, the ‘professional poker player’ tag is prominently featured on his visiting card and in the public mind, his image is as closely associated with poker as it is with powerful fetishes such as fast cars, sexy women, and big guns.
He may not play a lot of poker but sure knows how to play with the media and with social networks, as confirmed by his 8.7m followers on Instagram and 7.8m likes on Facebook. A master of provocation, the ‘King of Instagram’ is a constant source of inspiration and furnishes material for the fantasy life of millions all over the world. Perhaps one day he will even better his single live tournament achievement so far - 180th place for $36,626 in 2009 WSOP Main Event.
Photo: https://twitter.com/danbilzerian
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HeroScore Countdown: Number 9, Chris Moorman
@Nicolas Levi finally reveals what HeroScore is!
The new feature will premiere on Monday, May 18th. Meanwhile, the Top 10 countdown has begun:
Our Heroscore Number 9 is known as the best online MTT player in the world!
For many years he was best-known as 'Moorman1' and the first man in history to pass the $10 million bar in online poker winnings. He is the unchallenged champion of the Bluff Europe British Poker Awards in the “Best Online Player” category, having won in FIVE consecutive years!
But @Chris Moorman has long established himself as a live tournament player as well, with $4 million in live cashes and a champion title from 2014 LAPC!
Fans can now draw from his experience as he recently released his first poker book, Moorman's Book of Poker.
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HeroScore Countdown: Number 10, Michael Mizrachi
@Nicolas Levi finally reveals what HeroScore is!
The new feature will premiere on Monday, May 18th. Meanwhile, let the Top 10 countdown begin:
Our Heroscore Number 10 has a year named after him!
‘The Grinder’ is one of the four Mizrachi brothers who famously all finished in the money in the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event. Michael made the November Nine that year, reaching fifth place, and also won the $50,000 Poker Players' Championship. 2010 was justly dubbed "The Year of the Grinder".
@Michael Mizrachi’s poker resume features 3 WSOP bracelets, 2 WPT titles, and $14.5 million in live tournament earnings. The brothers started their careers in poker as dealers and Michael is the cofounder of the Mizrachi Dealer Academy - the first online training site of its kind.
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Let the HeroScore countdown begin!
Number 10 revealed, Number 9 coming up!
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ABC of Poker: Quick Odds with the Rule of 4 and 2
Poker, as we all know, is about making the right decisions. While psychology and intuition play a big role, the basic operations in the post-flop decision-making process are of a more objective nature and easier to grasp and practice:
1. counting your outs
2. estimating your chances of making a winning hand (drawing odds)
3. calculating the pot odds to decide if it's worth making a call
You already know all about outs and fortunately there is a simple way of working out the percentage chances of completing a winning hand. We owe it to the author of the Little Green Book and the Gordon Pair Principle, @Phil Gordon, and it's known as
The Rule of 4 and 2
Source: http://www.philnolimits.com/uploads/8/1/8/9/8189328/nlh-tips.pdf
When you are on the flop, you should only multiply by 4 if your opponent is all in and you have to estimate your chances by the river.
Flush draw, opponent is all in on flop: 9 outs * 4 = 36%
Straight draw, opponent is all in on flop: 8 outs * 4 = 32%
Normally you multiply the number of outs by 2 on the flop when waiting for the turn; and again by 2 on the turn, waiting for the river.
Drawing Hand | Outs | On Flop OR Turn | Percentage Odds | By River | Percentage odds |
Flush draw | 9 | x 2 | 18% | x 4 | 36% |
Straight draw | 8 | x 2 | 16% | x 4 | 32% |
Flush AND straight draw | 15 | x 2 | 30% | x 4 | 60% |
Two overcards to pair | 6 | x 2 | 12% | x 4 | 24% |
Two pair to full house | 4 | x 2 | 8% | x 4 | 16% |
Example:
You: K♦J♦
Flop: 7♦3♦Q♣
You have 9 outs - A♦Q♦10♦9♦8♦6♦5♦4♦2♦ to complete your flush draw, x 2 = 18% to make it on the turn.
Turn: 7♦3♦Q♣10♠
Now you also have an open-ended straight draw for which you need one of the following: A♥A♣A♠9♥9♣9♠, and this brings the number of outs to 15, or 30% probability of completing a winning hand on the river.
So what do you do with this percentage? You compare it to your pot odds and if the former are worse than the latter, you fold.
As for pot odds and how to calculate - this will be the topic of another post in the #RKHabc series!
For homework ;)
How many outs for @Patrik Antonius in this hand?..What are his chances of completing a flush or a straight?
Elena RKH 13 May 2015
ABC of Poker: Pocket Pair Odds
With 52 cards in the deck, 13 ranks and 4 suits, calculating probabilities in Texas Hold'em is unfortunately a little more complicated than the 50/50 chance of landing heads in a single coin flip :) What is more, even if you do get dealt a promising starting hand like a pocket pair, chances are someone at the table will be dealt a higher pair. So what are the odds of this happening?
Pre Flop Drawing Odds
To calculate the probability of being dealt a specific pair, AA for example, you multiply the probabiliies of getting each card: 4/52 x 3/51 = 12/2652 = 1/221 = 0.45%:
1st card: 4 Aces out of 52 cards in the deck, or 4/52 multiplied by
2nd card; 3 Aces out of 51 cards, 3/51
The probability of landing one of the top five pairs: AA, KK, QQ, JJ, TT is 5/221 = 2.26%
Respectively, the probability of getting dealt ANY pocket pair of the 13 possible ones is 13/221, or 5.9%.
Say you do hit those 5.9% and land a pocket pair. How likely is someone else at the table to hold a higher pair?
The Gordon Pair Principle
This simple equation was developed by poker pro, commentator and author @Phil Gordon:
C = (N x R) / 2
Where C = percent chance someone left to act has a bigger pocket pair
N = number of players left to act
R = number of higher ranks than your pocket pair
Example from the WSOP hand in the above photo where UTG raised with J♥J♣,
N=6 players left to act R=3 (there are three ranks higher than jacks) 6x3 / 2 = 9%
The formula was developed for situations when you are the first to act and results are not reliable if there have already been one or more raises by the time the action gets to you.
Gordon Pair Principle, more examples
If action had folded to Greg Himmelbrand in HJ with 6♥6♠ in the above hand (which you can watch here) the equation would be: N=4 x R=8 / 2 = 32/2 = 16%. Again, if he were the first to act, the button, with 4♥4♣, would face 10% chance of either the SB or BB holding a higher pair (N=2 R=10 2x10 / 2 = 10)
Probability of facing one or multiple higher pairs pre-flop
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poker_probability_%28Texas_hold_%27em%29
You will have noted the vulnerability of small pocket pairs, especially in full-ring games, so beware! Position is key and discipline even more so. If you pay to see the flop with a small pair, be prepared to fold unless you get that set! Queens and Jacks give you great odds pre-flop but should be played with caution thereafter (see overcard probability table below). As for the 'holy grail of poker' - KK and AA - these are the best pre-flop shove hands you can get and raise and re-raise is the way to go in any position!
Pocket Pairs After the Flop
Next on #RKHabc we will consider how to calculate drawing odds based on number of outs after the flop. Meanwhile, here is some information about what you can expect with a PP:
Probability of improving a pocket pair
Every pocket pair's dream is to become a set and chances on the flop are approximately one out of 8 times.
| Odds/probability of flopping a set or better | 8.5 to 1 (or 10.5% chance) |
| Odds/probability of flopping a set | 7.5 to 1 (or 11.8% chance) |
| Odds/probability of flopping a full house | 136 to 1 (or 0.73% chance) |
| Odds/probability of flopping quads | 407 to 1 (or 0.25% chance) |
| Odds/probability of making a set or better by the river | 4.2 to 1 (or 19.2% chance) |
Source: http://www.suntzupoker.com/poker-odds.aspx
Once in about 1,000 hands you might get into a 'set-over-set' situation, with two players starting with pocket pairs and completing three-of-a-kind on the flop or by the river as.in this hand from the RankingHero Last Longer in Unibet Open:
More on pocket pair odds:
Pocket Pair Odds Example - Texas Holdem Pokerwww.texasholdem-poker.com
How likely is your pocket pair to hold up
In the event that nobody else was served a pocket pair, you will be concerned about the probablity of overcards coming up on the board and giving an opponent a better hand:
Source: About Online Poker, Nicolae Sfetcu
Coming up: Outs and Odds & the 'Rule of 4 and 2'
Annie RKH 8 May 2015
You will find a collection of odds and probablity tables on the website of RankingHero member @Nick Jivkov . Would be great to hear from Nick, as well as from @Greg Himmelbrand and @Miguel Alves De Abreu about their pocket pair strategy!..
Two Nice Hands and ITM for RankingHeroes Miguel Silva & Ellie Biessek in Unibet Open! - Ranking Herowww.rankinghero.com
I for one must confess a terrible weakness for TT... Do YOU have a special emotional attachment to a particular pocket paiir? A favorite video featuring PP you'd care to share?
And talking about @Unibet Open, perhaps @Ellie Biessek or Last Longer winner @Paulo Rodrigues have pocket-pair hand histories and/or tips to share with us?
