Fair enough. I thought the equity calculators were a new thing.

Is the cardplayer odds calculator a good equity calculator

https://www.cardplayer.com/poker-too...deuce-to-seven

Not really no, because it is hand vs hand, which is not realistic for learning.

Yeah I did think that was a bit limiting. What ones do you like using?

That's a link to 2-7 single draw odds.

Not relevant to triple draw.

You're never beginning with the knowledge of your opponent's hand. If you know that your opponent has that specific hand, folding is a good option.

If you're folding 7-3-2-x-x to a single raise before the draw, then you're not going to have enough hands worthy of entering play and your opening range will be too narrow to be successful. You excessively tight opening range will be exploited by more aggressive players who will be padding their ROI by winning the lion's share of the blinds. Such a tight image will also result in you getting no action when you have a premium hand.

Position is important and knowledge of opponent are extremely important.

The median player will likely be raising with your hand. It contains the most valuable 2-card combination of 2 and 7 which makes straight's impossible. It also contains a 3rd wheel card. Your good draws are 4/5/6/8. That's a total of 16 outs.

If you draw 2, an average draw will get you 1 of those 16 outs leaving you 2 shots at the remaining 12 outs which is a 50-50 proposition. Sometimes you get nothing and might face a small bet to try once more. The next two streets, the bets are larger and your strategy will depend on opponents actions, position and the success of the first 2 draws.

Avoid opening hands like 3-4-5-6-x. That's negative ROI.

Stick with hands that have a 7-2 or hands that have a 2-3-4-8 or 2-3-5-8 to begin and you'll do ok.

Thanks for your comment. I was just trying to get an understanding of how good players make decisions with drawing without using the equity calculator. But it the sounds like that's not happening and you just have to use a equity calculator. Which is fine. I don't really like using the computer to make every decision. So it's obviously just not the game for me. I'll stick with NL and PLO.

This is the complete wrong attitude. 2-7 is a really fun game and you don’t need to use equity calculators to make decisions.

This might be a bit of a rant, but this is what has gone completely wrong with some of poker. It’s a game, it’s supposed to be fun. You don’t need a coaching site, solvers, equity calculators to learn how to play well.

Keep reading posts here. Ask questions, you’ve already gotten some solid feedback that will help you in selecting starting hands.

But most importantly, just go play some hands! Unless you’re a professional, and this is your sole source of income, you don’t need to be a computer to play. And yes, you can absolutely still win without any of this.

Mix games are fun because they are probably the least solved games you can play, and the tables are usually full of people who actually enjoy playing poker. I can’t recommend highly enough that you just give them a try and learn by playing.

I dunno. Mixed games seems to be for the super talented players that enjoy poker in a very serious way. The hobby/beginner players are playing no limit and nothing else. There's a reason why there isn't much mixed games training content but loads for beginners No Limit. The only time I've seen these mixed games was WSOP. Seeing the top guys play all the games is cool to watch.

I honestly love the skill of poker. I like trying to compete with good players. So it really doesn't offend me if I'm just not good enough. I'm not someone who picks things up naturally so I enjoy listening to the great players explain their thinking. It's very clever