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Last week, I alluded to the notion players play Ultimate Texas Hold’em more timidly than they should.
Texas Hold'em r/ holdem. Hot New Top Rising. Card classic compact. Posted by 2 months ago. Help Reddit App Reddit coins. There is a limit on how many starting hands you can play before the flop in No Limit Texas Hold’em, even for the world’s best players. If you try to play too many hands, you’ll bleed away your chip stack (unless lady luck is on your side).
While a portion of this is probably based in the relatively complex strategy of the game, I believe the larger portion is in the decision itself. It takes nerves of steel to put down four times your initial Ante wager.
Give me a High Pair or a suited A-J and I’m willing to risk it. But what about offsuit A-8 or suited K-10? How good are these hands? Even if the strategy says to play 4x, UTH allows the player to wait for more information and then either play 2x or wait longer. So, why rush my decision?
The first thing you need to remember when playing UTH is you are playing head’s up against the dealer. You are not playing against the other players. So, even if the table feels a bit crowded, you’re still in a 1-on-1 situation.
As any Hold’em player will tell you, the hands that are only so-so in a full table can become that much stronger in a head’s up game. If you’re playing on a full table and need to act early, there’s a good chance you’re throwing your mid-Pair hand.
If we rank the pocket hands in a head’s up game, we find it starts with a Pair of Aces and works its way down to a Pair of 8’s as the top seven hands. Yes, a Pair of 8’s is a better hand than a suited A-K from a mathematical standpoint. Since there is no bluffing in UTH, this is the ONLY thing that matters.
Just how powerful is a Pair of 8’s? You’ll win this hand 68.5 percent of the time and lose it only 30.5 percent of the time. Is it any wonder our strategy tells us to play 4x. By waiting for the Flop, what exactly are you hoping to see? Ideally, of course, you want an 8 on the Flop.
When you get it, you’re an almost sure winner, but now you only get to win 2x instead of 4x. Worried you might see a J-Q come up and he’ll beat you with a Higher Pair? Again, there is no strategy in UTH. The dealer is as likely to have a 2-3 as he is to have a J-Q. Unlike real poker, he isn’t going to fold his 2-3!
After a Pair of 8’s, the majority of the next hands (when ranked by win frequency) are of the A-X variety and a few more mid-Pairs. You’ll note I did not say suited A-X variety. While a suited hand is, of course, stronger than a non-suited hand, the X is very important as well.
We find an off-suit AK will win more often than a suited AJ. The simple reality is, starting from a suited hand, you’ll only get a Flush about 2-3 percent of the time. The higher second card will do more for you when it pairs up because it will be able to beat that many more pairs. The power of the suited pocket cards is in the ability to bluff the other player(s) or perhaps bully them when you have 4 cards to a Flush.
When all the work is done, we find ALL Pairs, except 2’s, warrant a 4x Wager. A Pair of 3’s will win 52 percent of the time and this puts it right at the cusp of our strategy mark. Will you kill your payback if you choose to wait on a Pair of 3’s? No. But if that were the only hand players were getting hesitant on it wouldn’t be a problem.
Every hand with an Ace – suited or offsuit – warrants a 4X wager. That’s right. Even the lowly offsuit A-2 will win 52 percent of the time (and tie 4-plus percent of the time), making the 4X wager the right play. Every suited hand with a King should be played 4X.
Here is the complete strategy for the 4X wager in Ultimate Texas Hold’em.
• If the player is dealt any Pair except for 2’s, he should Raise 4x.
• If the player is dealt an Ace, he should Raise 4x.
• If the player is dealt a suited K-X, where X is card of the same suit.
• If the player is dealt a suited Q-X, where X is greater than a 4.
• If the player is dealt a suited J-X, where X is greater than a 7.
• If the player is dealt an unsuited K-X, where X is greater than a 4.
• If the player is dealt an unsuited Q-X, where X is greater than a 7.
• If the player is dealt an unsuited J-10.
Roger Snow, the senior VP of table and utility products for Bally Technologies, invented UTH. I’ve often heard him tell the story about how he was playing it a few years back and went in 4X on a suited King hand.
The dealer looked at him and told him he shouldn’t do that. Roger smiled and thought to himself he’ll trust his own math guy (me!) as to the strategy. Did I mention a suited K-7 will win 56 percent of the time?
I understand it can be difficult to wager 4x for what is essentially a marginal hand. However, it should be noted some of these hands are not so marginal. A Pair of 6’s will win 63 percent of the time! Depending on the blind paytable in use, UTH can have a payback well in excess of 99 percent.
It is virtually impossible for the average human to achieve a payback this high. But, from observing the game, I would say most of the people give up any chance of getting this kind of return on the first wager, which ironically is the easiest to master. As I said earlier, I don’t think this is a matter of the difficulty of the strategy, but rather the hesitance to make such a large wager.
If you can master the strategy for just the 4X wager of UTH, you will have made significant progress toward a degree as an expert player.
Speaking of degrees, a special shout out goes to my son, Nis, who is graduating from Rutgers University this week! I’m sure the commencement speaker will be quite entertaining, if they ever figure out who it will actually be!
Elliot Frome is a second generation gaming analyst and author. His math credits include Ultimate Texas Hold’em, Mississippi Stud, House Money and many other games. His website is www.gambatria.com. Contact Elliot at [email protected].
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It was about 10 years ago that the Texas Hold’em craze was starting to take over poker rooms everywhere. I used to play a lot of poker in college (won a lot of spending money).
I don’t think we played a single hand of Texas Hold’em. We played 7-card Stud, Guts, 5-card Draw and a whole host of other strange games like nighttime baseball. It’s what you get when you play Dealer Choice poker for several hours. But, not one hand of Texas Hold’em.
I had no idea what the game was until I saw signs for it in Las Vegas poker rooms. Even then, I paid it very little attention.
Somehow, in the 21st century, Texas Hold’em became the game you had to play. I personally think it happened when some popular young actors started playing it.
Once the craze happened, it was only a matter of time before inventors were going to try and replicate the feeling of Texas Hold’em in a casino table game against the Dealer. There were several entries, but for the first couple of years, the market was dominated by Texas Hold’em Bonus Poker. This was owned and invented by a company called Progressive Gaming aka Mikohn (now defunct).
This put a lot of pressure on Roger Snow of Shuffle Master to come up with something that could compete with THBP. I’m not sure how many iterations we went through before we started zeroing in on a version we liked. My recollection says it was 20 or 30 variations.
I remember it was 2 a.m. on a Saturday in New Jersey when the idea of the 4x, 2x, 1x betting strategy came up. We liked it a lot. I spent the next few days proving out the math and it worked. Ultimate Texas Hold’em was born.
That 4x, 2x, 1x betting pattern was unique to UTH. You could bet only once in the game. The earlier you bet, meaning the less information you had, the more you could wager. You could check all the way until you saw the entire hand, but then it was bet or Fold. To this day, I think it was a stroke of genius.
At the time, I don’t think we realized just how beautiful it really was. It wasn’t just that the Player can bet only once, or the earlier he bets the more he bets. It was the 4x that was the real beauty.
That scares the daylights out of most players. If you tell them they have to bet 2x (or even 4x), they learn to live with it. But give them a choice to bet 1x, 2x, 4x or check and the Player becomes far more timid.
Look at blackjack where players have the option to Double Down. I submit that you see players not double down when they should, far more than doubling down when they shouldn’t. Players are more timid than we realize except for that guy who still insists on splitting 10’s/faces!
If Players are scared to wager 2x when they should, imagine what 4x does to them. In UTH, you are already playing $10-$15 at a $5 table (Ante, Blind, Sidebet). Now you have to put up an additional $20 if you decide you want to go 4x. If you come in with a $100 bankroll, it might be one-third gone in one hand. To most players, it makes sense to simply wait a few seconds, get three more cards and if the hand pans out, bet 2x.
The problem with this is the game math was all designed to assume the player is not timid, but plays mathematically correct. Ironically, the 4x wager is the easiest of the three potential strategy points to learn. Also, at 4x, it accounts for a very large amount of our payback.
UTH offers over 99% payback. But, playing it timid can easily double or triple the house advantage. Wagering more or less does not impact whether you will win the hand or not. So, if the player wins only 2x, he still feels like he won and is happy. If he loses betting 2x (after thinking about betting 4x), he’s happy not to lose more.
It’s a win-win situation only for the casino. Ultimate Texas Hold’em has one of the smallest house advantages in the casino yet boasts one of the highest holds. A good deal of this is simply because so few people have any idea of any of the strategy.
A good portion of this also comes from people who probably have figured out the right 4x strategy (or know it from reading my articles) and still shy away from playing it.
This is the truly amazing part of the betting structure. On the one hand, the players are happy they have the choice and frequently are happy even when they make the wrong decision. The casinos love being able to offer a game that boasts a 99% payback yet holds like a game with a 97% payback.
Players should wager 4x 38% of the time. Here is the right strategy:
• If the Player is dealt any Pair except for 2’s, he should Raise 4x.
• If the Player is dealt an Ace, he should Raise 4x.
• If the Player is dealt a suited K-X, where X is a card of the same suit.
• If the Player is dealt a suited Q-X, where X is greater than a 4.
• If the Player is dealt a Suited J-X, where X is greater than a 7.
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• If the Player is dealt an unsuited K-X, where X is greater than a 4.
• If the Player is dealt an unsuited Q-X, where X is greater than a 7.
• If the Player is dealt an unsuited J-10.
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Elliot Frome is a second generation gaming analyst and author. His math credits include Ultimate Texas Hold’em, Mississippi Stud, House Money and many other games. His website is www.gambatria.com. Contact Elliot at [email protected].