The fact reflected in the table that more hands are won with AKo than AKs is undoubtedly due to there being a lot more AKo starting hands than AKs starting hands over the course of the 10 million deals in the simulation. Of course, there are more unsuited starting hands than suited starting hands which serves to give unsuited hands an 'advantage' in the table's tally. While these tallies contain a bunch of information, it is important to remember that not all cells in the table are created equal. Finally, the 151 entry just to the right of the 133 means that 1.51% of all 6-max Long Deck deals were won by AKo. Also, the 57 entry just below the 133 means that 0.57% of all 6-max Long Deck deals were won by AKs. The table's first entry of 133 means that 1.33% of all 6-max Long Deck deals were won by AA. Following the adjusted rules of Short Deck, the table reflects that a Flush beats a Full House in Short Deck (in this and all other of my recent Short Deck threads a Straight beats Three of a Kind).įollowing poker convention, the 'lower triangular' portion of the table consists of suited hands, the 'upper triangular' portion of the table consists of unsuited hands, and the 'main diagonal' (in bold) of the table consists of the pairs.

The table below presents the respective distributions of the category of winning hands. As was previously assumed, on each deal all hands go to showdown. Unlike the previous analyses, this one does not seem amenable to analytical (combinatoric) solutions so I ran 10,000,000 deals of each poker variant. As in the previous threads, I looked at 6-max Short Deck vs 6-max Long Deck. I want to investigate the distribution of winning hands in Short Deck vs Long Deck. Here I want to take a more 'high level' view. In previous threads, I looked at how often does a Flush occur in Short Deck vs Long Deck, how often do Quads occur in Short Deck vs Long Deck, and how often do Full Houses occur in Short Deck vs Long Deck. Similar to PLO, the in-hand swings in Short Deck are wild it being common for each card (flop, turn, river) to greatly change who is ahead in the hand. Pre-flop equities run much tighter than in Long Deck (regular 52-card NLHE poker). Short Deck is a wildly fast-moving game with frequent large pots and tons of action.

I am sure that everyone knows by now that Short Deck is played with a 36-card deck since all the 2's, 3's, 4's, and 5's have been removed (of course, this is why Short Deck is also called Six-Plus poker). The Triton poker series has popularized short deck hold-em.

Short deck starting hands