Calculating Pot Odds

[trauma]

Hey Peeps came across this short article about pot odds. It does a great Job explaining pot odds in a clear simple way. No need to read an entire book Explains it in two paragraphs.


The possibility to count pot odds is a significant element of each kind of poker gambling. Our main aim is play the law of averages as opposed to blind luck, in resolving if a stake is a lucrative determination or not.

Pot odds solutions are one of poker's easiest, yet it is one of the most common mistakes made by players. It makes no difference if you are playing nickel/dime no limit table at Luvin Poker or a $100/$200 table at Luvin Poker, without a doubt you will meet a participant who is making bad pot odd determination or slighting them completely, meantime paying off the remaining part of the table.

How to compute pot odds is to collate the whole quantity of unknown cards in relation to how many outs you have, and after that do some division, which is not difficult. For instance, look, if you are four to a nut flush on the turn of a Texas Hold 'em play, there are 46 cards, you don’t know them, 52, containing your 2 pocket cards and 4 on the board. Let’s exclude them, and in 46 remaining cards, 9 are the same suit as your flush draw. In this way 37 cards won’t be useful for you, and only thanks to the remaining 9 you will be given the nut flush hand. Your odds are : 37/9, or easier, 4.1 to 1 odds against making your draw. A skillful or experienced poker player will only call a bet in the similar situation, if there is already 4x that quantity already in the pot. Thus if you were participating in a play of $5/$10 limit, then it would be necessary for there to be at least $40 already in the pot to justify your calling that $10 bet to see the river.
Next, something about inside straight draws. There are 4 outs, with 46 unknown cards on the turn. 42 cards don’t help you to win, and only 4 from them make you a conqueror of a game. 42/4 = 10.5! it would be essential more 10 times the quantity of your call to be in the pot already, to warrant this call. Solely in a wild poker gambling will this kind of call pay off in the long run. Probably, it seems unreal, but these wild plays really exist in the internet, where inside straight draws have good odds. In this way, you have lots of opportunities to find them and to earn real money thanks to them.

*Made a few little adjustments ie: Luvin Poker

[Krabbeltje]

I am soooo bad at maths and counting pot odds...so this should help me (I think)

Thank you for posting this!!!!

[WinJStar]

Dayum lurkers.

[Krabbeltje]

^ ^ ^ Not me...I am innocent ^ ^ ^

[LeanTo133]

mommy what's a Lurker?

[StevieJS]

I'm lazy, I let my computer tell me what my odds are (As can be seen in these pretty images below)







Dunno what happened to the pot odds display in the last one.. But who cares.. "You have the nuts" is good enough odds for me

[1WorldHoldem]

Here is a nice lil video on calculating pot odds that I posted on my forum

[KManDeuce]

Are we to assume that we are incapable of getting any more money into the pot after hitting our draws? I swear I've done it before.

[ItWasSooted]

Pot odds? Those actually have something to do with chips invested into the pot and not if we have enough equity to hit the draw to make it a profitable play. Pot odds = return on investment within a hand ... e.g. you have to pay 700 into a pot of 250 aint pot odds after all, but 800 into a pot of 1900 makes it a profitable play.

Or did you mean Outs / Equity to win the hand in your initial post?

[KManDeuce]

Pot odds? Those actually have something to do with chips invested into the pot and not if we have enough equity to hit the draw to make it a profitable play. Pot odds = return on investment within a hand ... e.g. you have to pay 700 into a pot of 250 aint pot odds after all, but 800 into a pot of 1900 makes it a profitable play.

Or did you mean Outs / Equity to win the hand in your initial post?

Ummm....what?