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Mastering Pre Flop Poker Odds

by Alexander Banks on Sunday, November 18th, 2007

Anyone looking to master the game of poker is an individual that will most certainly play at UltimateBet.com and want to master the concept of pre flop odds.  Mastering pre flop odds is vital – a sound understanding of probabilities will help the poker player become a prudent bettor, one that basis all bets on a sound system of logic.  Understanding pre flop odds can actually help the poker player shed light on the betting system by making betting an act that is not a based on a wild guess or hunch. 

Instead of making a stab in the dark, or placing bets based on intuition, most avid poker players familiarize themselves with pre flop odds.  Some of the most basic pre flop odds should be memorized in order to improve betting.  Below are some of the typically pre flop odds every poker player should know.

Pre Flop Card                                              Pre Flop Odds

  • Pocket Rockets/Pair of Aces                    1:220 
  • Face Card Pairs                                           1:73 
  • Pairs (sixes through tens)                          1:34 
  • Pairs (deuces through fives)                      1:54 
  • Any Pair                                                         1:16 

Some players like to rely on pre flop odds calculators in order to determine what the poker odds are.  There are special pre flop odds calculators available online for Texas Holdem, and Omaha variants of poker.  Utilizing such tools can also help a poker player master basic odds – the more that the pre flop odds calculators are used, the more familiar the poker player becomes with pre flop odds.  Soon enough, the player may discover that there is no need to rely on the pre flop odds calculator at all.

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