Visualizing Texas hold ’em

This interactive visualization is about the probability perspective in Texas hold’em. It was created by a software engineer named Chris Beaumont. The visualization shows us the first two hand win rates by enumerating and computing all possible (nearly 1.3 trillion) combination of hands. There are three graphs, which represent Average Hand Strength, Hand Frequencies and Weighted Hand Strength respectively. Our focus here is the last one because it is the most important part for players.

The VIZ only use cube (totally 13x13x4=676 cubes) as mark and color/satuation as channels. For any pair of two hands, the deeper blue represents the higher win rate and the deeper red represents the higher loss rate. Overall, it is simple and easily to understanding. But the contrast is low, you will be hard to differentiate which pair of hands has 60% win rate between other pair with 40% win rate.To be more distinguishable, it could use more channels, such as more color/satuation or more shapes to represent the win rates.

Reference:

http://chrisbeaumont.org/holdem_odds/#8H+QS

https://www.fastcodesign.com/3042982/infographic-of-the-day/a-data-nerds-guide-to-winning-texas-holdem