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A Theory of Flop Play: Counting Outs and Evaluating Draws

A popular perspective on poker is that it’s a contest between a made hand and a draw.

Under many game conditions, this is a useful perspective, but, under loose game conditions,
maintaining that perspective of the game can lead to frequent tactical errors.

As game conditions become loose, involving more players actively competing for the pot,
poker becomes more a game of money and odds and less a confrontation between a made
hand and a draw.

Under the made-hand-versus-draw perspective, the made hand is in the lead and bets-raises to punish the draw, which is the hand that’s chasing.

Bets and raises are used to reduce the pot odds that the chasing hand is getting, to the benefit of the made hand.

This line of thinking works fine in games where most hands become two-or three-player confrontation.

In those kind of game conditions, ideas about best hand and hand domination are of paramount importance, but when the game typically involves four or five players contesting the pot on the flop, a different view of the game is needed.

 

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