Comparison

Pot odds and implied odds answer two different questions about the same call. Pot odds ask what the call costs right now. Implied odds ask what the call costs once you count the chips you can still win on later streets. Treating them as two versions of the same number is the source of most confusion. If either term is unfamiliar, what pot odds mean covers the first one from scratch. They are not competing estimates. One is a floor and the other is a projection. ...

Poker has ten hand types, and the order between them never changes. A royal flush beats a straight flush, a straight flush beats four of a kind, and the same rule runs all the way down to high card. Below are all 45 possible matchups between those ten hand types, so any pair you are unsure about takes one line to answer. The 10 hands, strongest to weakest Every hand in poker belongs to one of these ten categories. The example shows one real five-card hand of each type, and the last column gives how often that type appears in a five-card deal from a standard 52-card deck. ...