Posted Sun Sep 10, 2006 6:02 am GMT by kirshon
Assume 8 players all go all-in pre-flop and everybody shows their cards before the community cards are dealt. Is there a way to work out who has the best chance of winning the hand? (remember I am talking pre-flop so no community cards are out yet). What's the maths?
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Posted Sun Sep 10, 2006 6:51 am GMT by fiezk
Very hard to do "by hand", use an odds calculator. Should be easy to google.
Posted Sun Sep 10, 2006 7:58 am GMT by kirshon
Is there perhaps a way to calculate it in Excel?
Posted Sun Sep 10, 2006 8:57 am GMT by MrDarling
there is an odd calculator right here :
http://www.texasholdem-poker.com/odds-calculator/texas-holdem.php
Sure you can write your own - but why bother , there are so many free ones online!
Posted Sun Sep 10, 2006 10:28 pm GMT by kirshon
That calculator is BRILLIANT!!!! I am trying to build an Excel model to do exactly the same. Is it possible to do in Excel? Whats the porcess? Assuming 8 playes, that leaves 36 cards still in the deck. Do you then have to work out all 376,992 (36 choose 5) hands and see who wins each hand? Seems a massive task. How does the holdem calculator do it so quickly?
Posted Sun Sep 10, 2006 11:31 pm GMT by Sean_in_NJ
| kirshon wrote: | | How does the holdem calculator do it so quickly? |
A Monte Carlo simulation. It's really the only way to handle problems like this in a reasonable amount of time.
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