Domination (poker) Domination (poker) Poker hand A is said to dominate poker hand B if poker hand B has three or fewer outs (cards to catch) that would improve it enough to win. Informally, domination is sometimes used to refer to any situation where one hand is highly likely to beat another. The term drawing dead is used to denote a domination situation with zero outs. In hold'em poker variations, domination usually refers to one of five situations involving the hole cards: This is considered domination—despite the having six outs—because if they both hit the flush the will win. The following table
Poker Effective Hand Strength (EHS) algorithm hands. The underlying assumption is that an Effective Hand Strength (EHS) is composed of the current Hand Strength (HS) and its potential to improve or deteriorate (PPOT and NPOT): where: Hand Strength (HS) will enumerate all possible opponent hand cards and count the occurrences where our hand is strongest (+50% of the cases where we are tied): codice_1 In addition, EHS will consider the hand potential (i.e. its probabilities to improve or deteriorate): codice_2 EHS is applicable to a wide variety of poker games such as Texas hold 'em poker, Omaha hold 'em poker, ... Given the complexity of the