What is the best and easiest way to calculate poker hand strength?

Question

What is the best and easiest way to calculate poker hand strength? Pre and post flop???

Answer 1

AA, KK, AK, and QQ are strong pre-flop.  After the flop you have to look at if you have a draw, how big the draw is, if there are over cards, and ho people are betting.  An A high flush draw is a h**l of a lot better than 10 high flush draw.

Answer 2

Ask yahoo answers....

Answer 3

I use the card player calculator  http://www.cardplayer.com/tools_tips its very easy to use and allows for numerous players

Answer 4

Hand strengths are overrated, and you shouldn't let the concept of this run your poker game. Percentages you see on TV are percentages for how often a certain hand will win over another hand, out of thousands of such hands being played. Now, that doesn't mean that seven-deuce offsuit should be played against pocket kings or aces, but I've cracked pocket kings with eight-ten offsuit before.

Answer 5

Preflop the Sklansky Malmuth hand ranking table is useful, atleast for fixed limit holdem.

Answer 6

to calculate the odds of making a hand...like 1 care to the flush...count your outs and multiply by 2...then multiply that by the number of cards to come.

For instance, if you have 4 cards to the flush after the flop..

you have 9 outs with 2 cards to come

9 X 2 X 2 = 36%

Not exact but pretty darn close.