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On the flop is the best hand the hand that is winning or the hand with the best % chance to win?

Depends what position I am in, if I get my chps in with a massive draw but no made hand then thats clearly the best hand if I get my chips in when I am in front with the made hand and get outdrawn then obviously its a suck out and poker is rigged :)

Think we have a thread on this before. And the general consensus was best hand = winning, favourite is obv the %...

I will personally take the favourite each time tho :)

I will always take whichever hand is ahead in the %ages

I would personally say the best % chance.

If you are going to get into semantics, I suppose on the flop the best 5 card poker hand is winning.

Yet most forms of poker are based on best 5 cards from 7 and when you are all in, the next 2 cards are always going to get dealt.

Well i would follow the math as should you,

Just because you see you have made an under paid and you opponent is up n down with overs with flush draw + board pairing then your no longer ahead are you!

Always take the math thats how you work out wether your ahead or not ;-)

Yep, like if say Leicester take a shock 1st minute lead against a full strength Utd in the FA cup 3rd round at O.T.   Leicester are winning, but Utd would still be favourites...

So what yr saying is??


im not asking which hand people prefer  im asking them to define as BEST hand

Good one...

Whats a winning hand ??

BEST hand= hand with best overall chance of winning. Not hand thats infront at the time imo. Ask Maldini ;)

Was just thinking of that hand!

I personally think the best hand is the current made hand. For eg you have  2d 2c vs  Kh 6h  on a  5h 4h 7d board...the best hand is the 2s cos you HAVE to hit your card to win with k6, even though you are a massive fave something like 70%ish. I would expect most people to disagree with me here.

Thats not to say i wont take the k6 hand every day of the week!

A question I was pondering the other night (which kind of fits in with the thread title) - if you were all in preflop against 8 random hands and could choose your holding, what cards would you pick?

So who's BEST in that example?  Leicester?

9h 6h is even better.

AA ldo.

i think the hand ahead on the flop must be the best hand, the favourite to win the hand because of outs is another matter

Yeah aa evertime.

It breaks pokerstove when you ask it to do the maths though, lol.

33.6% vs 8 x 8.3% (using Monte carlo method).

The BEST hand, depends on the player behind it