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Range in poker
The full set of hands a player could hold in a given situation, rather than one specific guess.
Strong players do not ask "what does he have?" They ask "what could he have?", and that set of hands is a range.
Ranges are written compactly. 22+ means every pocket pair. ATs+ means ace-ten suited through ace-king suited. JJ-88 means the pairs from jacks down to eights. Commas combine them: 22+, ATs+, KQo.
A range is measured in combinations rather than hand names, because AKo is twelve specific holdings while AKs is only four. There are 1,326 possible starting combinations, so a range of 319 combos is 24.1% of all hands.
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