Contrary to the belief of many, winning in poker is not just luck. This is the ability to see, recognize, calculate and make the right and timely decision. In addition, it is important to remember that the probability of winning in poker directly depends on the number of participants in the party - the more players, the lower the chance of winning even with fairly good cards. There are 169 combinations of starting hands without taking into account suits. Of these, 13 combinations of pocket pairs and 78 combinations of unpaired suited and offsuit combinations. I love a pair of 99s - "Phil Hellmuth" (first won the
wsop Main Event with this hand in 1989), "Wayne Gretzky" (one of the most famous hockey players and athletes of the 20th century played under this number); "balloons" - in addition to visual similarity, 99 is a combination, the initial advantage of which with the ease of a balloon can disappear postflop.
