POKER ODDS EXPLAINED - THE EASY WAY!Written by Oddvar Pettersen
To be successful at poker you should, at any time during play of a hand, be able to calculate odds of catching your hand to odds pot is giving you.Knowing probability of making a specific hand in poker can be done by calculating hand odds. Figuring out how many outs you have will give you possibility of calculating number of times you will hit your hand by river. Lets say your'e dealt A-9 of hearts in Texas Hold'em and flop comes up showing two hearts. Your hand odds for hitting another heart by 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 finding number of outs that you have. Outs are number of cards remainig in deck ( not visibe to you) that can help you make your hand. So if we are using hand above as an example and you hold A-9 of hearts and catch two hearts on flop, than you have 9 more hearts in deck that can help you complete your flush. 2 hearts in your hand + 2 hearts on table minus 13 hearts in total = 9 outs.
| | Old Time Radio on your MP3 PlayerWritten 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 to shows at night before I go to sleep, but my computer is nowhere near my bedroom.With 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 of 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 of age of these programs (poor recording quality, mono audio, etc...) they are typically recorded at low bit rates and low frequencies. Many of 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-encode 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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