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Maywood Studios - Hold Em or Fold Em 8387EB Ecru/Blue Western Shirtings. Hold Em or Fold Em from Maywood Studios Tell a friend about this product: Click on Image For. Before you can determine whether or not to fold a hand, you need one to play. In No-Limit Texas Hold’em, each player receives two hole cards preflop and are immediately presented with a decision – play or fold. There are 169 unique combinations of starting hands, and some are better than others. Pocket aces are at the top while deuce-seven.

Poker Digest Vol. 3, No. 5, February 25 - March 9, 2000

In the Poker Digest ``Letters From Our Readers' section, Vol. 2,No. 22, there was a letter from a reader asking for help in nofold'em hold'em because of her or his seemingly constant losing sessions.This article is in response to that letter and perhaps presents a differentslant on the matter.

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Let me digress for a few moments and discuss learning. I taughtmathematics to university students for more than 30 years andfrequently heard the post-examination story, in an endless variety ofmanifestations, of how the student really understood the material buther or his mind went blank during the exam, etc. (It has many similaritieswith listening to bad-beat stories.) Most of those students were nevergoing to continue with graduate studies in an intense discipline likemathematics and discover what I discovered: There is a huge differencebetween undergraduate studies and graduate studies!

The difference is not the level of the material--the difficulty arisingfrom the level of the material, for a student at that level, is about thesame for all levels. No, the primary difference in graduate studies isthe level of expectation. You are expected to truly understand thematerial. That is why a typical course load for a graduate student is twocourses instead of the four to six courses undergraduate students typicallydo.

It's virtually impossible for a student with five courses to developa true understanding of all the material. Thus, students study to tryto do well on exams. Their understanding is frequently superficial andcan disappear under stress. People who truly understand something donot have their minds go blank; the understanding is deeper than that.

How does a graduate student develop a deep understanding? It's doneby constantly thinking about the material in hand, discussing it withother people interested in the same material, and when that is done,thinking about the material some more.

What does this have to do with poker and the letter from the reader?Perhaps you can guess where this is going given the above digression.

My essential message to the reader is to read all you can about thegame and then think about it. However, I have much more to say as thepreceding sentence by itself is almost useless. First, there are manysources for reading. There are many books, magazines,and Internet groups. There's no lack of reading material.

Let me now give you some advice on what you read. By and large, muchof what you read is at a fairly detailed level. For example, startinghands are rated, when to call and not to call is discussed, when toraise is discussed, and so on. If you accept this advice at a superficiallevel, you will encounter serious problems: Some of the advice iscontradictory. You will be playing like a robot, and you will be confrontedwith situations not covered by any of the advice. There are somepeople who maintain that if you play low limit no fold'em hold'em likea disciplined robot, you will win in the long-run. I am not convincedthat is true, but in any case you should try to improve your game.

Above I mentioned the virtue of thinking hard about material in orderto develop a deep understanding. What does that mean in the context ofreading much material on poker? For me, deep understanding in the pokercontext means being able to articulate general principles underlying thedetailed advice being given. Thus, what one should be doing is lookingat the advice being given by some collection of writers, thinking aboutwhat is being said until you understand and can articulate one or moreprinciples guiding their advice.

The importance of articulating a general principle yourself is that thismeans the principle is in your own language and you relate to it. Youcan apply it to new situations because you understand it and you canmodify it when necessary. It can be very rewarding.

I recallclearly when I was an undergraduate student and not enjoying memorizinga list of formulas for solving different kinds of problems involvingvolumes of solids of revolutions. I was joyous the day I figured outthe underlying principle for any problem of that type. I promptlyforgot the formulas and solved any such problem whenever I encounteredone using the underlying principle. I also didn't forget it...ever.

Discovering general principles underlying poker situations is not easy.Some writers mostly write about particular situations and never writein terms of underlying principles. Other writers mention generalprinciples and illustrate them with particular examples. You mustthink hard about what all of them are saying until you can make senseof it in your own context.

An interesting test of how well you are doing by following generalprinciples is to play in a new venue and see how quickly you adaptto the game at that particular venue. It can be a real eye-opener.

Good luck!

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No When To Hold'em Know When To Fold Em

The recent Texas Hold'em craze has spawned a bunch of on-line Poker sites. These sites tend to breed a group of poor players whose primary strategy is to never fold or throw away a hand. These players will always play and bet on every card on every hand no matter what the cost or what cards they have. You have decided to take advantage of these stupid players by developing your own poker site that allows you to always beat these players.

The way your site will work is: there are only two players in each game: you and your opponent (this is called a heads-up game). Each of the two players will get two “hole cards”; these cards are dealt face down so, presumably, only the player can see them. Four of the five community cards (cards shared by both players) will be dealt face up on the table. We will dispense with any betting for the purpose of this problem: it is irrelevant since each player will always call every bet right to the “river” (the fifth and final community card). You will always be seated at position 1, and your opponent at position 2. The program knows what seat you are sitting at and the hole cards for both players, therefore, it can compute all the cards that remain in the deck that will maximize the amount of money you would get playing the hand – folding is not an option. In the event there is no card that would allow you to win or tie the hand, you will be forced to take a loss on that hand (after all, it looks good if you lose sometimes).

Input

The first line of input contains an integer N which is the number of data sets that follow (1 ≤ N ≤ 100) . Each data set consists of three lines. The first line of each dataset specifies your two hole cards. The second line is your opponent's hole cards. The third line is the four community cards. A card is specified by two characters: it's rank (A,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,T,J,Q,K) and it's suit (S,D,H,C) for Spades, Diamonds, Hearts, and Clubs respectively. For example, the Ace of Hearts would be AH, the Nine of Spades would be 9S. Within a line, there are no spaces or invalid characters. All input will be valid.

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Output

For each data set, your program will output (on a new line) the data set number followed by a colon, followed by a space, and a list of card(s) that will maximize the amount of money you could get playing the hand. If no card will allow you to win or tie, just display ‘LOSER’ instead of the cards. Each card should be separated by a single space. Your program will display up to 15 cards on each output line. If more than one output line is required for a dataset, additional lines should be indented by exactly 3 spaces. Cards should be output in suit order (S,D,H,C) and rank order within each suit (Ace high).

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