Domination (poker)

Overview

• Pair dominating a shared card and a lower card. This true case of domination requires the underdog to catch at least two cards to win. The win percentage for the pair ranges from 80–90%. How related the underdog's cards are to each other increase the odds.
• Higher pair dominating a lower pair : Barring an unlikely straight or flush possibility, the underdog must catch one of two remaining nines to beat the QQ.
• A pair dominating higher than at least one of the cards in a non-paired hand
• Sharing a card, a higher kicker dominating a lower kicker : Barring an unlikely straight or flush possibility, the underdog must catch one of the three remaining cards of his kicker rank.
• Suit Domination: Sharing two cards of the same suit : This is considered domination—despite the having six outs—because if they both hit the flush the will win.

• A higher hand vs. a lower
• A higher pair vs. a lower

• the weaker hand adding additional outs
• the weaker hand becoming stronger but not dominating
• The weaker hand can become the dominating hand. The term reverse domination is applied to the 3rd case of preflop domination under one of these reversals.