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Originally Posted by The Viper
When pokerprotools compares a hand to top 20% or 30% of hands, is there anywhere we can see exactly which hands the program is putting into these ranges?
Good question!
Try
http://www.propokertools.com/simulator/o8ordering.txt
for ten handed play. Count down 3286 hands for the top 20%.
The rating lists for 6 handed, 3 handed, and 2 handed are different than the rating list for 10 handed, but similar. I don't have links to get to those other rating lists.
I imagine somehow the programming genius behind ProPokerTools (Bachfan, who occasionally posts here) has a quick way to locate whatever hand you choose on the list and provide an automated answer to how it rates. (I'm just guessing).
Just as in Texas hold 'em, it's possible to choose three Omaha-8 hands such that:
Hand A>Hand B,
Hand B>Hand C, and
Hand C>Hand A.
And that makes it hard to rate 16432 distinctly different hands relative to each other. Bachfan came up with a clever solution to that dilemma, which he describes somewhere. And the result is the list.
Buzz