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Originally Posted by LUCIUS VARENUS
Swedish:
6 players
Small blind, big blind.
Everyone dealt 5 cards.
Burn
Flop
Burn
Draw!
Bet
Burn
Turn
Burn
River
Showdown
Pot is split between best 5 holecards and best Omaha hand, 2 from hand, 3 from board.
You only mention "bet" once. Yet surely there is more than one betting round. How many betting rounds are there, and when do they occur?
You burn after the flop and then immediately draw? And then you get two more burns?
Do you pay for burns or are they free?
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Originally Posted by LUCIUS VARENUS
Was playing it 2 nights back with my mates and we played it with 3 draws. We usually play it burn, flop, burn, draw, bet, burn, turn
Again you only mention "bet" once. How many betting rounds are there, and when does each occur?
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I started with 2 pair and didn't improve
If you draw one card three times, trying to hit one of your pairs, mathematically that's the same as drawing three cards all at once. You'll improve to a full house about one time in four.
- P=1-C(43,3)/C(47,3)=1-12341/16215=~0.24
I doubt you can do that in your head during a game.
But you can approximate. You see 5 cards and 47 are missing. Only four of them will be useful to you. After the shuffle and cut, each of those 47 cards (including the four that are useful to you) is in a particular position.
You're going to be dealt three of those cards (but one at a time). How many groups of three cards are found in 47 cards? (Almost 16 is the answer). And at most four of those 16 groups of three cards contain one of the cards that will be useful to you. Finally 4/16 = 1/4 or about one in four.
And that approximation, about one in four is close enough to the actual probability of ~0.24 for our purposes.
With two pairs, you pay to draw three times, figuring that you'll miss three times out of four and if you miss, you'll mostly fold. But if you make your draw, you'll bet and you'll have to be able to collect when you bet after you make your full house/quads.
You're going to make your draw about one time in four. That's pretty often. So it's more to your advantage to get called when you make your draw than have your opponents "keep you honest" when you don't. In other words, bluff early and until you get caught. And then totally lay off the bluffing.
(If it were a game where you didn't make your hand much, you'd do it the opposite way, establish a reputation for having the goods, and then, once having established that reputation, steal them blind). First impressions matter the most.
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What sort of hand values do you need across 3 draws to win the Draw side?
Triple draw high?
I've never played triple draw high. Off the top of my head, my first consideration would be to avoid drawing to make a hand that would lose even if I made my draw. In other words, I'd want to avoid ending up with a second best hand.
So for starters, until I got a better feel for what kinds of hands my opponents were drawing to, what won at showdown, and the propensity of my opponents to bluff, I'd be drawing to make good full houses/quads.
Just my opinion without ever having played "Swedish."
Buzz