PokerCoaching coach James Romero teaches why Combinatorics matter in the game of poker and how you can best utilize them to increase your win rate and get an extra edge over your opponents who know nothing about them!

James walks you through the basics of combinatorics in poker starting from the basics. Did you know that there are 1,326 preflop combinations of possible poker hands? This is a concept that you need to learn to start really competing with some of the best poker players in the world. It will help you to start crushing high stakes cash games and high stakes tournaments!

He talks through the removal effect of how many different combinations your opponent’s can have when the community cards are revealed. There are 6 possible combinations of aces, but when an ace is on the board there are now only 3 possible combinations.

A poker concept that might be new to some players is called weighting. You must always remember to factor in weighting when you are ranging your opponents. If you raise from UTG and the BTN calls with a flop of A73 then they should have 0 combinations of AA because they would 3-bet that hand preflop. They should have all combinations of 77 which would be 3, and then maybe they only call sometimes with 33 preflop so we can weight them to having that combination once.

James talks about when he tends to use combinatorics the most; when he is bluff catching or even when he decides to bluff!

0:00 - Intro
0:19 - Why Do Combinatorics Matter?
03:43 - The Basics
09:45 - Removal Effects
12:58 - Weighting
20:35 - Examples & Applications

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