About Odds

Hello,

I don’t want to offend you with this but you listed before the odds of 2 over cards improving to a pair by the river at only 26% while you listed the odds of AK hitting an A or a K by the river at even. Why these two are not the same? Anything behind this?

Thank you very much in advance.

Warm regards,
Dave
Dave,

The reason these values are different is because that in the case of the over cards, there are more known cards. If you hold 10-J and someone has a pair of nines, you know two of the possible cards and actually eliminated 4 outs from the calculation. In this case you know 6 of 52 cards.

The calculation of A-K improving to a pair is based on no other cards being known. In this case you only know 2 of 52 cards.

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