2008-08-16 - Odds of losing

[HHTB]

Originally Posted by Tuan6

anyway! i did the math but doesn't come out with any of the answer so i chose the answer that was closet to my answer and had it right muhahaha... then they gave me explanation of why that was the right answer . " I Don't get it" uhhh but yeah muhahah so how does this quiz work? if i told everyone the answer right now would that be against the rule? i guess so huh?

Read about it in quiz section it tells you 5 people will be entered each day for getting it right

only 5 hehe cool dog cool! more chance of winning.!

Originally Posted by HHTB

Read about it in quiz section it tells you 5 people will be entered each day for getting it right

you actually think anyone gonna waste time doing that? i'm a laid back kinda person.. so no thx dog.. oh your the admin.. well hellow

[Diego741]

Hello,

I have a question. How can I sign up for the Rail Birds quiz $ 250 Freerolls qualify?
Thank you!

Always having been good at math, I just 'eyeballed' it and got it right. But with the answers being that close, I could've been wrong. And perhaps if I had the time or inclimation, could've come up with the formula quizzy put forth. But unless you have no feel for hand value whatsoever, how useful is this statistic in real-time play? With no context, it's nothing more than an exercize.

I love that game .. and I'm strong in the college mathematics =)... Used probability distribution instead of continuos aproatch (the true one), you can have a "feel" more fast as is needed in poker games... but one thing, the 21% can be decrease if you have reaised after folds in the pre-flop.

google "hold'em odds teority" for who metters..

oww ! and of course, in my course I remember used a nice probability book from Montgomery .. is called "Applied Statistics and Probability for Engineers"

is this math or poker? this is probably why i don't win at this game? havent got a clue on probability. but what i do know is if its late in a tounament near the bubble and i'm big blind and low stacked and it's checked all the way down to the river before mr big stack who is holding 2 3 takes me all-in (damn i hate this game)lol

I said the highest percentage cause as usual I read it wrong. I thought you wanted what would be the percentage of you losing with that hand. grrrr. That my friend is why I don't ever get these kind of questions right. Actually I don't usually try.
Like I hate looking stupid.

[SilverRider]

I used my "manual odds calculator" on my Poker-Spy software, and it puts you at 71% to win, 2% to split, making it 27% that you are beat! The formulas used to answer the question may be accurate, but its to complicated to be fuctional.