They may have a 35% or less flop cbet statistic, but very high calling stats, and a “went to showdown” of 30% and higher. This is a passive player. Against such players, you can donk bet a strong range of hands for value, as they are likely to check even strong hands like top pair, third kicker (JQ on a board of J45, for example). In poker, the showdown is a situation when, if more than one player remains after the last betting round, remaining players expose and compare their hands to determine the winner or winners. To win any part of a pot if more than one player has a hand, a player must show all of his cards faceup on the table, whether they were used in the final hand played or not. Went to Showdown (WTSD) is a statistic used in online poker database software like PokerTracker and Hold’em Manager. WTSD is the percentage of the time you stay in a hand all the way through to a showdown.
Win Odds: Tournament Indicator win poker odds are calculated with a sophisticated mathematical algorithm based on your pocket cards, the community cards, and the number of players in the hand. Tournament Indicator offers accurate win poker odds that you can trust. You can change the display format to 'Ratio' in the settings window after you click 'Tools' > 'Settings'. 
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Pot Odds: Pot odds is simply a ratio of the amount of money in the pot compared with how much money it takes to call. The higher the ratio, the better your pot odds are. If there are $12 in the pot and it costs $4 to call then you are getting 3:1 odds ('cost to stay in'). This can be translated to a percentage, representing the size of your contribution in the new pot. It will be 25% in the above example.You can change the display format in the settings window after you click 'Tools' > 'Settings'. Hand Odds: Tournament Indicator displays the probabilities of hitting a particular hand at showdown for you and your opponents at showdown. For example, if it shows 20 on flush for you and 30 for your opponents, it means that you have a 20% probability of getting your flush, while your opponents collectively have a 30% chance of hitting a flush. Celebrity Poker Showdown
Starting Hands Strength: Tournament Indicator provides EV, Sklansky Group/Rank and Win Odds for your starting hands. They're all independent numbers. You can choose the one you prefer to play your own starting hands. EV: Expected Value for your hole cards. Expected value is the average amount of big bets this hand will make or lose. These statistics were compiled by a major online poker room from their database of millions of real live hands. So, for example, AA from the small blind in a 3/6 game will make on average 2.71 times the big blind, or $16.20 per hand (2.71 * $6). 22 from the button however, will make -0.12 EV, or -$0.72 in a 3/6 game (6 * -0.12). By only playing poker hands that have profitable EV, you will certainly improve your Texas Hold'em game. Please remember however, that this is a compilation of EV for the average player, so they are just representative of long term statistics and not Texas Hold'em facts. You will still need to play your poker hands accordingly, which means you need to observe your opponents, and play as the flop sees fit. Here are the Expected Value hand charts for 2 Players, 6 Players, 10 Players. Group/Rank: This is another way to describe your hole cards' strength. In the book of Hold'em Poker for Advanced Players by David Sklansky, he divides the starting hands into 9 groups. This is a strategy book for limit Hold'em, but the starting hand groups do have some practical use in no limit Hold'em. Group 1 is the strongest; Group 9 is the weakest. You can get the whole list of the Sklansky Groups. For PokerStars and Full Tilt (only), we use 'Rank' to indicate the absolute strength of your starting hand, 1-169, 1 is the best hand. Holdem Indicator converts it into percentage as 'top %'. You can get more information about the starting Hand Ranks. OUTs: OUTs refer to the unseen cards still left in the deck that will improve your hand after the flop. As you might guess, the more cards left in the deck that will improve your hand, the better. That's why, after the flop, you want to stay with hands that can be improved in a number of ways. The more outs, or ways your hand can potentially improve on the Turn or the River, the better your chances are of winning the pot. By counting your outs, you can do a very rough, quick calculation to estimate your chance of improving your hand after the flop, and hopefully having a winning hand. Knowing how likely (or unlikely) you are to improve will help you make a better decision about how much (or little) to invest in the hand. Tournament Indicator shows you the total outs and what the outs are. Tournament Indicator displays the OUTs from the strongest to the weakest. So you can easily ignore the weak ones if you wish. Keep in mind that Tournament Indicator doesn't calculate Win Odds based on OUTs. They're independent. You can use either of them to judge your hand strength. Position: Tournament Indicator shows your position after flop. For a full size table (7-10 players), the first three seats after the button would be Early. The button and the two seats before it would be Late, and in between is the Middle. For short-handed tables (5-6 players), Early and Late position are the first and last two positions. For tables with 2-4 players, Early and Late position are the first and last position. 'h': Click 'h' to switch between 'Current Session' and 'History Data' for your player stats box. For column 'Balance' and 'Streak', only data for current session is displayed. Showdown Poker Game
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Introduction
Hold 'Em Showdown is a poker-based game by Playtech. It is based on who will win a Texas Hold 'Em showdown between two starting hands. Posted odds are commensurate with the probability of winning.
Rules
- First the player must make a bet.
- Then five starting hands will be shown. Each starting hand will have two cards. One starting hand shall be that of the Dealer. The other four shall belong to four different Opponents.
- Winning odds are posted for each hand in each match up.
- The player must choose one of the four possible match ups and then which side will win.
- The help screen says, 'The cards of the Opponents that were not chosen will be removed and the remaining community cards will be dealt – first the Flop, then the Turn, and then the River.' What this very badly worded rule means is that the cards of opponents that were not chosen are removed from the screen and returned to the deck. Then the community cards will be dealt.
- The game will deal five random cards from the 48 left in the deck to be used as community cards.
- Using the two hold cards and five community cards, each side in the match up will make the best possible poker hand.
- The side with the higher ranking poker hand shall win.
- If the player chose the winning side, he will win the posted odds.
- Ties results in a push.
Example
I bet $5. The following screen shows the four match-ups. I can bet for or against the J-4 off-suit vs. one of the four starting hands along the bottom.
I chose to bet on the J-4 against the pocket twos. Another jack appeared on the board so my pair of jacks beat the Opponent's pair of twos. My return win $10.32.
As evidence of that the unchosen cards are returned to the deck, note the jacks of spades from the first unchosen opponent hand came back as the first card on the flop.
Video
Here is a video of a sample hand. Sorry to keep repeating the point about the return of the unchosen cards, but I think it bears repeating. One my of many annoyances when it comes to gambling is badly written rules
Analysis
The odds are carefully set so that the return is 97.00% if it were not for rounding. However, the winning odds are rounded down to the penny. So, the less you bet, the more the rounding down decreases the return percentage. On 10¢ bets, I've seen the return as low as 90%.
External Links
- Discussion about Hold 'Em Showdown in my forum at Wizard of Vegas.