Posted by Hugo | Posted in Poker | Posted on 08-11-2010
Sorry to say this, but live poker on the internet requires several math. Yuk! I know, I know. But I am doing my ideal to help make this as simple for you as I can. Here is a Psalm for you personally:
Church of Hold em Psalm #four:
Thy must determine what odds the pot provides thou just before choosing to draw at thy hand.
Have you in fact studied poker? If not, there’s work to do first. You must comprehend and know like the back of your hand the odds of your hand improving after the flop. You can find plenty of websites providing this details.
Do not be as well stuckup about figuring out pot odds. Just obtain the rough idea in simple-to-remember chunks. 2 to 1, 4 to 1 and so on. See! That was not too bad. Now for pot odds and how to calculate ‘em.
So, as an example, here is a frightening example in nl holdem. You have Ad7d. You are heads-up and there is 30 dollars in the pot. The flop gives you the nut flush draw:
Kc 9d two-d
Except your opponent moves all-in for his final $25. Can you call or not?
Very first, what do you think he has? Possibly a king, two pairs, a set? You will be most likely behind anyway. Now let us look in the pot and see if you may afford to call. Here comes the math!
There’s 30 dollars before his bet, and $55 once he’s all-in. It expenses you $25 to see the turn and river. 55 divided by twenty-five is two point two-to-1. Your odds of hitting the flush are two-to-one, which means you are obtaining much more value from the pot than the quantity it expenses to call.
Are you surprised at how near this choice is? I was!
5 dollars less in the pot and you can either call or fold, it would make no distinction to your long-term results. There would be fifty dollars in the pot and it would cost you twenty five dollars, exactly two-to-one. You would win 1 time in three, which means you’d neither win nor lose!
Whenever you operate out pot odds and locate them against you, you have to fold. Even in situations when it appears close. In the extended run, you will probably be saving cash by folding.