Low Notes
In games that are played for high and low, like Omaha H/L or Stud H/L the pot will be split between the best high hand and the best low hand.
But the low hand must be 8 or better. If you have problems, correctly
evaluating low hands, you can check:
Starting with all low hands,
you can always click on the name of the rank to see the distribution for that category.
This will show you the statistics for the selected rank. You can do this, until there are no more different ranks in that category.
On the right side you will see hand examples for the best and worst hands of the category you are currently displaying.
Above you see a screen shot for the statistics for high card.
The heading shows the name of the group, in this case high card.
Number of Hands: the total for this group. In this case there are 1.317.888 high card combinations from all 2.598.960
low hands.
Odds: The odds to receive a hand from this group (hig card). Here your odds to get a two pair hand are 1/1.
Different ranks: Number of different ranks for that group. Here, there are 9 different two pair ranks, namely from
"five high" down to "king high".
The Columns
Category: The name of the category. In the example, the marked cells in that row show the values for two Jacks.
Number: The number of hands that fall into that group. In the example, there are
35.840 different combinations for high card eight.
Odds: The odds to receive that hand. In the example the odds to get jacks up are
72/1.
Distrib.: The distribution among that group. Here the number of 2,72% shows, that from
high card hands 2,72% will high card eight.
Chance: The probability to receive that hand. The basis for the calculation are always all hands. The chance to get
high card eight up out of all possible poker hands is 1,38%.
Totaled: In this column the chance for this and the better ranks is totaled. For two
high card eight, the number tells you, that 2,21% of all hands will be
high card eight or better
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