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An Experiment in Excessive Poker Play

There are really two different aspects of your basic or natural playing sytle.

• tight or loose
• aggressive or passive

A tight player tends to play few hands, and only enter a pot when they have a quality holding. A loose player enters many pots with a large range of hands. An aggressive player prefers to bet with or without value in their hand, and a passive player tends to check or call.

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I was thinking about the odds of a hand I recently played, where I flopped trips and ran into bigger trips. What are the odds of that happening? Using PokerOdds ( a free program ) I crunched some numbers and came up with some rules of thumb for beat card odds on the flop.

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