6+ Holdem Equity Calculator

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A card can be rank 6 to A (ace). Put s,h,d,c (spade,heart,diamond and club) after rank to define suit. You can separate cards with a space, no space or a comma. ORanges 6+ Calculator is a specially adapted version of the oRanges Calculator for Six plus Hold'em (6+ Hold'em). A new and fast algorithm was created to calculate equity, according to the Original Six-Plus and Triton series hand rankings in the Short-Deck Hold'em (fast switching between the Original and Triton hand rankings is available). 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. Group 1 is the strongest; group 9 is the weakest. This is a strategy book for limit Hold'em, but the starting hand groups do have some practical use in no limit Hold'em.

Having already dealt with hand rankings and the starting hands in parts 1 and 2, it’s time to turn to the mathematical side of the game and see just how much difference the 36-card deck makes to pot odds.

This will obviously involve looking at whether you’re likely to be ahead or not at any given point, and also calculating the percentages of outs available for you or your opponent.

Let’s start with an open example:

Example 1

Six plus Hold’em ($10/20, 6-handed)

Hero:910

Villain:QQ

Villain opens in seat 1 for $50, everyone else folds and you call in the BB. Pot = $110

Flop:7KA

Hero checks and Villain continuation bets$55, half the pot, making the pot$165 (let’s not discuss whether it’s a good play or not - I’m trying to make the maths simple for us all!)

We don’t know what the villain has, but we’re pretty sure we are only drawing to the flush here, so it comes down to pot odds whether we call or not (let’s ignore a speculative re-raise in this scenario!)

There are only nine spades in the deck in total (remember that the 2,3,4 and 5 are all out of play) and five of them are split between the board, our hand and our opponent’s hand. We don’t know that he has the Qs, so that’s only four in play for our purposes – so five cards left to draw to.

So, 5 of the 31 cards unknown to us will likely win, which is about a 17% chance of hitting, and we have two attempts at hitting it, so roughly 34%.

The other way of calculating this is to count one out, which is one in 31 = 3.2%, so…

5 cards x 3.2% x 2 attempts = 32%, which is close enough for practical purposes.

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Example 2

Six plus Hold’em ($10/20, 6-handed)

Hero:910

Villain:QQ

Villain opens in seat 1 for $50, everyone else folds and you call in the BB. Pot = $110

Flop:78K

Hero checks and Villain c-bets $55, half the pot, making the pot $165 (again, keeping the maths simple)

So, first of all we have ‘nothing’ except an open-ended straight draw, and we can consider our opponent to have something better than this, so again we are drawing to win.

We have eight outs (the four 6’s and the 4 Jacks) and there are again 31 unknown cards, so roughly 26%. And we have the turn and river to hit them. So, using the ‘guesstimator’ rule of ‘2 & 1’ for practical play, we can say 2 x 26%=52% chance of hitting.

Just to check this….

8 cards x 3.2% x 2 attempts = 51%, again close enough to know we’ve done it right.

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This is even clearer than example one when it comes to pot odds: 3-1 pot odds and even money on a win with your straight.

However, if you factor in that your opponent might have trips – which now beats a straight in Six Plus Holdem, it brings the odds down a bit - though you’d have to actually ‘know’ he was on trips to let it affect your play here.

The even more interesting aspect which this brings up, as pointed out on PokerVIP, is that:

Basically, if you know that your opponent doesn’t have trips or better, you can just keep on raising, because if you have any kind of fold equity, you’re going to profit in the long run; and when you do get called, it’s as close to a flip as it will ever be, provided you’re not drawing dead.”

Let’s draw up a table which shows the Texas Hold’em %’s versus the new Six Plus Hold’em %’s. These are the numbers you should learn by heart!

Odds and Probabilities from the flop to the river	Texas	Six Plus
Making a flush from a 4-flush	34.5%	33%
Making a full house or better from a set	33.3%	54%
Making a full house from 2 pair	16.4%	26%
Filling an open-ended straight draw	31.3%	51%
Filling a gutshot straight by the river	16.4%	26%

Odds and Probabilities at the turn	Texas	Six Plus
Making a flush from a 4-flush	19.6%	16.5%
Making a full house or better from a set	21.7%	32.2%
Making a full house from 2 pair	8.33%	12.8%
Filling an open-ended straight draw	17.2%	25.6%
Filling a gutshot straight draw	8.33%	12.8%

OK, so these are the basics regarding pot odds and outs –for deeper strategy I refer you back to our earlier link where you can find all sorts of goodies which explain the differences in more details: stacking off, 3-betting ranges and much more.

For the time being, this 3–parter has hopefully set you up to at least play Six Plus Hold’em without the feeling that you know nothing about this action-packed version of poker!

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