From Recreational to Profitable: How I Used Code to Decode Betting Patterns

As a recreational poker player, I consistently lost money for years until I realized I was playing cards, not people. The breakthrough came when I started treating poker as an information theory problem and built tools to analyze betting patterns mathematically. This article shares the exact framework I used to turn profitable by quantifying what was previously intuition. What Are Hand Ranges and Why Do They Matter? A hand range represents all possible combinations of cards your opponent could hold based on their actions throughout a hand. Instead of guessing what specific two cards they have, you assign probabilities to every possible combination they might play in a given situation. According to data from 德扑之家's solver database, profitable players consider ranges 83% more frequently than losing players when making decisions. from itertools import combinations from collections import defaultdict class HandRange : def __init__ ( self ): # All 1326 possible starting hand combinations se