| Useful and Interesting Links | 2005-01-01 |
Here we have some interesting and useful links. Let us know of any links you find, or if any of these links are broken using the "Contact Us" link on the left. Thanks! - Hand History Converter This link conveniently converts your hand history on the major sites into a very readable format. Use this when you want to post a hand history for discussion in our forums. Thanks to Bisonbison, author!
- Results of a 37k hand compilation on Paradise Here is a link to a study of 37,000 hands dealt to a player at Paradise Poker. He compiled everything, comparing the cards he was dealt, to the expected amounts. Note that everything seems to be okay with Paradise Poker's shuffler. Most of the largest online poker sites use similar shufflers to distribute cards randomly.
- How We Learned to Cheat at Online Poker The next link is a 1999 Study on cheating at online poker. This article spawned the endless amounts of "Is online poker rigged?" questions you see today. Note that nothing like this has happened since, and that 5 years is a very long time in the online world.
- Full Contact Poker Daniel Negreanu is generally regarded as currently the best poker player in the world. He redesigned his website in November 2004 and it now includes a frequently updated blog and now it's an online poker site.
- Two Dimes Poker Odds Calculator
This is a little page with a Poker Odds Calculator. You can enter any hands, with any boards, and it will tell you the percentage chance of each hand winning the showdown. - Poker Pulse tracks relevant stats on online poker sites such as number of players.
- Simon Fraser University Professor Alspach's Mathematics & Poker Page. A ton of useful pages here, mostly related to probabilities and stats.
- The University of Alberta Computer Poker Research Group's webpage. They are on the cutting edge of poker AI.
- Pokerroom.com's Expected Value page. They list the EV of every possible hand in Hold 'Em. For example, we can see here that pocket Aces are indeed the best hand. From the button you can expect to make 2.96BB on average with AA.
- Poker Stove is a neat little odds calculator that lets you enter ranges of hands for any number of opponents.
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