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Texas hold em calculator (Page 1 of 2)
Building your own texas hold em calculator on your computer is very easy, all you need to know are the math equations have a copy of Microsoft Excel. If you want to go high tech, you can always look for programs that will allow you to put your Excel spreadsheets online, turning your desktop calculator into an online calculator. Ok, so the first step to building your calculator is knowing what math equations you will need to produce the right results.
The first equations will be for the number of outs you have remaining to win the hand. If you want to determine how many outs you have after seeing the flop for the turn the math equation is as follows: The number of outs you have divided by 47, which is the number of unknown cards remaining. There are 52 cards in the deck, you have 2 in your hand and 3 on the flop, thus 52 minus 5 equals 47. So lets say you are holding King Queen of spades and the flop came Jack of Spades, Ten of Spades, four of diamonds. If you pick up any ace or any nine you will have a straight, which gives you a total of eight outs for your straight. There are a total of 13 flush cards in the deck and you currently have 4 of them, leaving you with nine outs. However, being that there are 2 flush cards being accounted for if you hit a straight (the ace of spades and the nine of spades) you have to subtract those two cards from nine leaving you with seven more outs to hit a flush. So you have a total of 17 outs to win the hand by either straight or flush. Being that a king or queen may also give you the highest hand with a pair, you have 6 more additional outs, the king of diamonds, clubs, and hearts as well as the queen of those same three suits. So best case scenario you have 23 outs to win the hand. 23 / 47 will tell you your percent chance of making your hand. In this case its about 49%. If you want to avoid the decimal system multiply the number you came up with by 100.
For the river the equation will be exactly the same, only you would divide the number of outs by 46 instead of 47, because there is one less card left in the deck for the river. So your river equation would be of outs divided by 46 times 100 to avoid decimals.
If you want to know your chance of making your hand on either the turn or river the equation goes something like this: 1 minus ((47 minus the number of outs you have) divided by 47) times ((46 minus the number of outs you have) divided by 46) times 100. The reason you are using the number one at the beginning is because without it, you would have the percent chance you wont win, as opposed to the percent chance you will win.
If all these numbers are too messy and complicated you can always use the “on the fly” method to calculate. If you want to know your chance of winning on either the turn or river take the number of outs you have and multiply that number by 4. The more outs you have the more inaccurate this method becomes, but then again at its worse its only off by about 4%. For hitting your card on either the turn or river multiply the number of outs you have by 2.
Online Bridge and Its Variant Casino Card Games
For card game fans, bridge is more than a game. Its a sport on its own with websites, blogs and columns exclusively dedicated to the game. Online casinos offer a whole lot of classic bridge and variant versions for free download and play. Since this is essentially a game of contract bidding, it involves playing for money. Bridge remains one of the most difficult card games to play. Only people who understand the nuances well, can keep in step with complicated strategy manage to win.
Whist is a variation thats been checked in popularity by bridge but nonetheless an interesting game. It lets you beat the opponent in a visual manner but there is no bidding involved. Having evolved from a game called Ruff and Honors, Whist was popular through the 18 and 19 century. The classic whist is a trick game for four players who begin with fixed partnership. A deal can use two card packs and 13 tricks are played.
In whist a 52 pair is used and game is held clockwise with cards ranking from highest card- the ace to lowest, the card 2. Whist has different variations including Knockout whist, Solo whist, Bid whist and Minnesota whist. Suit whist is a Belgian adaption of Solo whist while bid whist is a partnership game where bidding is done. There are no trumps in Minnesota whist so its quite close to Norwegian whist. Israeli whist is linked to Oh Hell, where player attempt to bid on tricks.
Bridge has another popular variation called Spades which is quite simple. Spades is played on jailhouse rules wherein tactics like point based sandbagging are penalized and there are many options in house rules. At a time 2 to 5 people can play either solo or in partnerships. A young game, spades is already popular online. Unlike in whist, this game is based on the premise that spade suit is trump. Different variations employ different rules.
One version of online Spades uses only a set whereas another uses two joker cards- big and little in addition to the full cards set. Spades scores on basis of hands, requiring winner to attain a fixed figure in points which is decided on before game starts. A 200 point target is considered short game and longer games can go up to 500 points. Game is opened by player on left of the dealer, with others following suit.