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I. Overview
The player starting cards displays for a particular starting card combination, how much
you have won/lost when playing those hands,
and other statistics for that starting card combination.
This is useful for plugging leaks in your game, once you have collected enough
hands in your database. For example, you can see that playing A5XX is a money
loser in 8-10 handed game.
II. Usage
To use this, you must first specify a card specifier. A card specifier states
a 4 card Omaha starting hand. Statistics will be generated based on the times
you were dealt 4 hole cards that fit the card specifier.
A card specifier is made up of two parts, rank and suit.
1. The rank specifier
lets you choose what rank you want the four cards to be (Aces count as the lowest
rank). Card 1 and Card 2 must be set to specific cards. Card 3 and Card 4 can be
set to a range, or to a specific card. For example, to set Card 3 to "8", and
Card 4 to any face card, set Card 3 to "8 to 8", and Card 4 to "J to K".
2. The suit specifier lets you choose how
you want the cards to be suited. The letters
stand for any suit. Choosing "All" will match any suit combination. "BCDE" specifies
a rainbow starting hand, meaning a hand containing 4 cards of different suits. "BBBB"
means a hand containing all of one suit, "BBBC" means a hand with three cards of one
suit, etc. The "Card X = Suit Y" optionally lets you specify which rank the suits are.
For example, if you want to find all hands where you were dealt any "A233", with the
Ace single suited, you would specify "A233" for the rank specifier, and "BBCD" for the
suit specifier. You would set "Card X = Suit Y" to "1 = B", meaning one of the "B"
suits is an Ace.
Once you have set your card specifier, you can get statistics on how that
4 card Omaha starting hand does by clicking the "Get Data" button.
The statistics generated are (example shows any A2xx hand, for all suit combinations):
III. Showdown/Dealt/All hands
A note about the "Showdown hands only/Dealt hands only/All hands"
radio boxes:
This option lets you use only hands where the
player showed down cards in a showdown in calculating starting card statistics,
or only hands where
the user was dealt cards in the hand history in calculating starting card statistics.
When viewing data about other players, you usually want this option set to
Showdown hands only, since you only know other player's hole cards when they showdown
their hands. When viewing data about yourself, you usually want to set this option to
Dealt hands only, since you want to see how well you do with starting cards even when
you have folded them before the showdown.
IV. Tips
Set the filter to 8-10 handed games only if you play mainly full handed tables,
to see how well you do with various Omaha starters. Try to avoid hands that mainly
only win high a low percentage of the time, or only win low a small percentage
of the time. Of course, take the fact that you make or lose money with the hand
into account, since every player's situation is different from other players.
Starting Card specifier (Card:Rank):
Card 1 : A
Card 2 : 2
Card 3 : A-K
Card 4 : A-K
Suit specifier: ALL, N/A, N/A
Total times dealt: 100 out of 1471 hands (6.80%)
Percent of times won money when not folded preflop: 43.30% (42/97)
Average won/lost when dealt: $-0.24 (-0.20 BB) ($-23.75/100)
Average results when not folded preflop:
Win/Loss: $-0.22 (-0.19 big bets) ($-21.75/97)
Win: $3.90 (3.55 big bets) ($164.00/42)
Loss: $3.44 (3.11 big bets) ($185.75/54)
Total win/loss (not folded preflop): -$21.75 (-18.75 big bets)
When not folded preflop:
won money - 43.30%, lost money - 55.67%, even money - 1.03%
Total loss when folded preflop: -$2.00 (1.25 big bets)
Percent of times folded preflop: 3.00% (3/100)
Showdown statistics:
Showed down when not fold preflop: 36.08%, (35/97)
Got high and low hand: 0.00%, (0/35)
Got high hand: 0.00%, (0/35)
Got low hand: 65.71%, (23/35)
Pots scooped: 0.00%, (0/35)
Pots three quarter or better: 0.00%, (0/35)
Pots half or better: 42.86%, (15/35)
Pots quarter or better: 22.86%, (8/35)
Pots won something or better: 0.00%, (0/35)
The statistics displayed are:
This lists the starting card rank specifier used.
The starting card suit specifier used.
How often the player was dealt a starting card combination
that passes the card specifiers.
What percentage of the time the player wins money out of
all the times the player did not fold this hand
preflop. Winning money means the player collected more than he/she bets.
Note that if a player wins, but the amount collected is
less than the amount he/she bet, it will not be counted
as a time the player won money.
The average amount this hand is worth when dealt. This is calculated by
taking every hand the user was dealt this starting card combination, and
adding up all the wins/loses. Then, this total is divided by the number
of hands the user was dealt this starting card combination.
The average amount the user wins or loses every time they
do not fold preflop with this starting hand combination (Win/Loss),
the average amount won when the amount collected is more than
the amount bet (Win), and the average amount lost when the
amount collected is less than the amount bet (Loss).
This is the total amount won or lost when the user did not
fold preflop with this starting card combination.
This shows how often the user won money, lost money, or come out even
when he/she did not fold preflop with this starting card combination. Coming
out even is defined as when the amount the user collects equals the amount
the user bets.
This is the total amount lost of all the hands where the user folded
preflop.
How often the player folds this starting card combination preflop.
How this starting card combination does at showdown. This shows
how often the user plays the hand to showdown, how often
it gets high, low, or both high and low, and how often it scoops,
three quarters, halves, or quarters the pot. "Pots won something
or better:" are pots where the user wins something, but less than
quartering the pot.
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