I had thought that I had something like this somewhere in my blog already, but apparently not.
I want to look at strength of hands by position, and the percentage of total hands that those starting hands represent. In the version that I was searching for I thought that I had used Phil Gordon’s starting hands [...]

What is a “cooler”? A cooler in poker is when you are dealt a big hand, only to find out that you were up against a bigger hand. The term comes from “cold deck”, one where you aren’t getting cards to play, and this came from references to a fixed deck, or one that someone [...]

In two hands in my Daily Grind I 4 bet on the small side, indicating that I want action. In one case I have AA, in the other AK. In the AK one I say that the other reason for 4 betting small is to be able to fold to a shove.
But this may be [...]

(Note: obv I wrote this post and part II in advance, then accidentally scheduled them backwards with Part II being posted first)

This is a collection of poker plays, separated into preflop plays and postflop plays. It’s a different way of analysing players according to what actions they have in their playbook. Rather than [...]

Slowly, slowly, slowly I’m starting to get more and more of a grasp on the separation between playing your hand based on expected value as separate from what happens afterwards. I’m more familiar with the idea of expected value given the situation and opponent’s range versus what actually is the hand your opponent holds, and [...]

Occasionally we find ourselves in a situation where we have KK and for whatever reason the thought crosses our mind that we should consider folding it preflop. The most common situation is where a number of factors come together, such as

Reads that indicate players are are very tight,
Initial raise comes from very early position,
Preflop action [...]

I drive to work each day on a street with two lanes for traffic each direction. It goes through mostly residential areas so the right hand lanes in both directions are available for street parking in the evenings or weekends. You know the type. During rush hour there are long stretches where there are often [...]

So, I start with a hand frequency chart and count. How many AA, how many 98s, how many 98o, how many total.
1,326 different hands, 169 different types. (all AA no matter what the suit are the same, all AK suited are the same, all AK off suit are the same). From poker probabilities Wiki:

Pairs: 13 [...]