POKER ODDS EXPLAINED - THE EASY WAY!

Written by Oddvar Pettersen


To be successful at poker you should, at any time duringrepparttar play of a hand, be able to calculaterepparttar 109892 odds of catching your hand torepparttar 109893 oddsrepparttar 109894 pot is giving you.

Knowingrepparttar 109895 probability of making a specific hand in poker can be done by calculating hand odds. Figuring out how many outs you have will give yourepparttar 109896 possibility of calculatingrepparttar 109897 number of times you will hit your hand byrepparttar 109898 river.

Lets say your'e dealt A-9 of hearts in Texas Hold'em andrepparttar 109899 flop comes up showing two hearts. Your hand odds for hitting another heart byrepparttar 109900 river will be approximately 36% or 3 to 1. (you will hit your hand 1 out of 3 times) You can figure this out by first findingrepparttar 109901 number of outs that you have. Outs arerepparttar 109902 number of cards remainig inrepparttar 109903 deck ( not visibe to you) that can help you make your hand.

So if we are usingrepparttar 109904 hand above as an example and you hold A-9 of hearts and catch two hearts onrepparttar 109905 flop, than you have 9 more hearts inrepparttar 109906 deck that can help you complete your flush. 2 hearts in your hand + 2 hearts onrepparttar 109907 table minus 13 hearts in total = 9 outs.

Old Time Radio on your MP3 Player

Written by John Eady


For those of us that are fans of Old Time Radio (OTR), until recently there were very few options to listen to these classic programs. To listen to them, you would have to use a PC or laptop. This was not very portable or convenient. Personally, I like to listen torepparttar shows at night before I go to sleep, but my computer is nowhere near my bedroom.

Withrepparttar 109891 recent proliferation of CD and memory based MP3 players, a new option has emerged to listen to our favorite classical radio programs. These tiny devices can not only be used to listen to music, but can now be used to listen to Old Time Radio shows. As many ofrepparttar 109892 OTR shows are recorded at low bit rates and frequencies, you can typically load several hundred hours of shows onto a single CD. If you are using a memory based MP3 player, even a 64 mb player will hold several half-hour shows.

Of course, not everything is perfect with OTR shows. As I mentioned earlier, because ofrepparttar 109893 age of these programs (poor recording quality, mono audio, etc...) they are typically recorded at low bit rates and low frequencies. Many ofrepparttar 109894 newer MP3 players have no problem handling these formats, but not all. If you find you're player can't handle a OTR program, you will need to re-encoderepparttar 109895 show at a higher frequency (e.g. 44 kHz) and bit rate. There are several freeware programs available that allow you do to this. If you have not yet purchased an MP3 player, ensure that it is capable of playing low bit rate (e.g. 32 kbps) and low frequency (e.g. 22 kHz) MP3 encoded files. My first CD MP3 player could only handle 44 kHz frequency encoded files, and I always found it cumbersome to have to re-encode files before being able to listen to them on my player.

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