Calculate your winning percentages

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

If you counted the remaining outs you still have, you can easily obtain a rough estimate of the winning percentages you have. ITropical Poker gives a quick guide how to count these outs, by the way Remember, these are just estimates, but they can certainly give you a good indicator of the strength of your hand.

Some handy tricks …

The rule of four

If two cards are still to come and you can see both cards, you have to multiply the amount of outs by four to get your winning chances in the hand.

The rule of two

If there’s only one card still to come, multiply the outs by two and you get your winning change percentage

As you can see, these results will never be extremely accurate, so if you want to be more precise just use the Solomon’s rule.

Solomon’s rule

With two cards to come, multiply your number outs of four. From this number you’ll have to substract the number of outs in excess of eight to get a more accurate winning percentage.

e.g. I have 14 outs, what is my winning percentage?
(14*4) – (14-8) gives you 56-6 = 50%