Domination (poker) shows examples of common domination situations. The percentages represent preflop pot equity in a heads up confrontation (percentage of winning plus half the percentage of splitting the pot). The percentages denote the three common domination situations noted above. In contrast, the percentages denote non-domination situations. After the flop domination becomes more complex and there are many domination situations which do not warrant exhaustive treatment however most commonly domination is maintained: However a situation can emerge where domination is lost. This can either be a result of : Domination (poker) Poker hand A is said to dominate poker hand B if
Poker probability Poker probability In poker, the probability of each type of 5-card hand can be computed by calculating the proportion of hands of that type among all possible hands. Probability and gambling have been an idea since long before the invention of poker. The development of probability theory in the late 1400s was attributed to gambling; when playing a game with high stakes, players wanted to know what the chance of winning would be. In 1494, Fra Luca Paccioli released his work "Summa de arithmetica, geometria, proportioni e proportionalita" which was the first written text on probability. Motivated by Paccioli’s work,