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Ultimate Texas Hold’em Collusion
Ultimate Texas Hold’em (UTH) has a significant hole-card problem (see this post and this post). I’ve wondered for a long time if it also has a collusion problem: if players are allowed to share their...
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Ultimate Texas Hold’em Basic Strategy and House Edge
Ultimate Texas Hold’em (UTH) is one of the most popular novelty games in the market. For that reason, it is important to understand the multitude of ways that UTH may be vulnerable to advantage play....
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Ultimate Texas Hold’em: The Known Card
Ultimate Texas Hold’em (UTH) is a rich source of advantage play opportunities. This post considers yet another possibility: when the player knows one of the two cards he will be dealt in advance of...
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Ultimate Texas Hold’em Hole-Card Play: One Dealer Card, One Turn/River Card
When an AP finds a dealer on Ultimate Texas Hold’em (UTH) who is vulnerable to hole-carding, it is not unusual for her to expose the bottom card of every packet of cards she delivers. This includes...
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Ultimate Texas Hold’em Hole-Card Play: Two Dealer Cards
Ultimate Texas Hold’em (UTH) must surely be the most widely available and profitable opportunity for hole-card play right now. Over the last few months, I finally took this challenging game to task and...
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Head’s Up Hold’em Basic Strategy and House Edge
Head’s Up Hold’em (HUH) is a relatively new poker variant that seems to be gaining traction. Its rules are nearly identical to those of Ultimate Texas Hold’em (UTH) (see this post). I am surprised this...
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Heads-Up Hold’em Hole-Card Play: One Dealer Card
Heads-Up Hold’em (HUH) is a novelty game with rules very similar to Ultimate Texas Hold’em (UTH) (see this post and this post). There are three differences: (1) HUH only allows a 3x pre-Flop raise; (2)...
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Heads-Up Hold’em Hole-Card Play: One Dealer Card and One Flop Card
Heads-Up Hold’em (HUH) is just Ultimate Texas Hold’em (UTH) with a 3x pre-Flop raise and a bad-beat payout on the mandatory “Odds” = “Blind” wager. Its analysis in every case follows the same logical...
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Texas Hold’em Bonus Poker Hole-Card Play: Two Dealer Cards
I know it must seem like I am drunk, given the way I keep analyzing over-the-top AP opportunities. How could it be possible to see both of the dealer’s hole-cards in Texas Hold’em Bonus Poker (THB) at...
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Ultimate Texas Hold’em Goof
A week back in a discussion of Ultimate Texas Hold’em (UTH), I read the following on the WizardOfVegas message board: I found a venue that will allow a 4x bet on the flop. Surely there is some sort of...
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