Online poker hand distribution today and 20 years ago

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What do you think, does it happen the same way or are there any differences?


I have noticed an interesting difference for example QQvs (A2 A3 A4A5A6A7A8A9) 20 years ago they were 80%vs20% but today they are 70%vs30%
 
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What do you think, does it happen the same way or are there any differences?


I have noticed an interesting difference for example QQvs (A2 A3 A4A5A6A7A8A9) 20 years ago they were 80%vs20% but today they are 70%vs30%
I wonder how you know what it was like 20 years ago. Perhaps this comparison is not correct because 20 years ago the game could have been somewhat different.
 
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What do you think, does it happen the same way or are there any differences?


I have noticed an interesting difference for example QQvs (A2 A3 A4A5A6A7A8A9) 20 years ago they were 80%vs20% but today they are 70%vs30%
I can't speak for 20 years experience, but 15 years ago I was getting nuts without coolers and my A2-A9s were winning on UTG. But even then I didn't win anything serious. Now I'm seeing coolers and bad beats. I didn't win once yesterday with AKs. Although there were a lot of such hands. :mad:
 
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I have noticed an interesting difference for example QQvs (A2 A3 A4A5A6A7A8A9) 20 years ago they were 80%vs20% but today they are 70%vs30%
I analyzed my hands and came to that result
Buddy, your "data" analysis could be correct based on your experience... but what's the fuzz? Taking for example that the statistical probability for 2 cards to win is 80% in an event, it is possible but not probable that the probability will be the mean even in the long run in a repeated random event.

The higher the spread the higher the standard deviation in a repeated random event. A 50/50% to win can be +/-5% whilst an 80/20% could be +/-10%. Somebody else could see a 90% win rate with the same cards over the same time frame whilst you see 70%. There's no anomaly here. Interesting? What do u think?
 
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I think the difference is that nowadays more hands like A2, A3, A4, etc. are played. When before it was practically automatic fold, poker has changed a lot
 
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I can't speak for 20 years experience, but 15 years ago I was getting nuts without coolers and my A2-A9s were winning on UTG. But even then I didn't win anything serious. Now I'm seeing coolers and bad beats. I didn't win once yesterday with AKs. Although there were a lot of such hands. :mad:
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I think the difference is that nowadays more hands like A2, A3, A4, etc. are played. When before it was practically automatic fold, poker has changed a lot
It could be... if win rate was analyzed including player behavior.
If its a fold, it shouldn't be included in a statistical probability analysis. :)
 
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it's a huge setup hand distribution not to say when you have the nuts and guy has same hand somehow so they earn more rake lol
 
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What do you think, does it happen the same way or are there any differences?


I have noticed an interesting difference for example QQvs (A2 A3 A4A5A6A7A8A9) 20 years ago they were 80%vs20% but today they are 70%vs30%
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I've only been playing poker for 7 years, so I don't know what poker was like 20 years ago, but obviously it was different, not quite like it is now. This is not surprising, although the game itself and the rules remain virtually unchanged, but technologies, software, etc. change over time. I think that artificial intelligence will be involved in the coming years and poker will again be waiting for changes.
 
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online poker recently turned 26 years old. The very first online poker room in history was called Planet Poker and it was launched in 1998.The first hand was dealt online on January 1, 1998 at Planet Poker. After them, other poker sites entered the market: first Paradise Poker, and then such now popular rooms as pokerstars and partypoker.Planet Poker has not survived to this day. Poker is harder to play now than it was 20 years ago.The real online poker boom happened in 2003, when Chris Moneymaker became the first person to win the world series of poker Main Event after qualifying on an online poker site. His story inspired many of today's successful poker players and made the game what it is today.
 
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As the word 'random' is based on some hidden formula for sure they change that formula from time to time.
So yes , I think today it's different
 
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What do you think, does it happen the same way or are there any differences?


I have noticed an interesting difference for example QQvs (A2 A3 A4A5A6A7A8A9) 20 years ago they were 80%vs20% but today they are 70%vs30%
Over time, everything changes, software changes, design and functionality changes. It's obvious that poker is not the same as it was 20 years ago, and it's also obvious that in 20 years' time, poker will not be the same as it is now.
 
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