Sorry to say this, except live poker on the net requires a number of math. Yuk! Yes, Yes. Except I’m doing my best to help make this as simple for you personally as I can. Here’s a Psalm for you:
Church of Hold’em Psalm #four:
You must determine what odds the pot provides thou prior to determining to draw at thy hand.
Have you truly studied poker? If not, there’s work to do first. You must realize and know like the back of your hand the odds of your hand getting better after the flop. You will discover plenty of sites supplying this information.
Don’t be as well anal about figuring out pot odds. Just obtain the rough thought in simple-to-recall chunks. Two-to-one, four-to-one and so on. See! That was not too awful. Now for pot odds and how you can calculate ‘em.
So, as an example, here is a frightening example in nl hold’em. You have Ad7d. You are heads-up and there’s $30 in the pot. The flop gives you the nut flush draw:
Kc nine diamonds 2 diamonds
Except your opponent moves all-in for his final 25 dollars. Can you call or not?
1st, what do you think he has? Probably a king, two pairs, a set? You will be most likely behind anyway. Now let’s look at the pot and see if you’ll be able to afford to call. Here comes the math!
There’s thirty dollars just before his wager, and fifty-five dollars once he is all-in. It fees you $25 to see the turn and river. fifty-five divided by twenty-five is two point two-to-1. Your odds of getting the flush are two-to-one, which implies that you are obtaining extra value from the pot than the amount it charges to call.
Are you shocked at how near this judgement is? I was!
5 dollars less in the pot and you could either call or fold, it’d produce no difference to your long-term outcomes. There would be $50 in the pot and it would cost you 25 dollars, exactly 2 to 1. You would win 1 time in 3, which implies you’d neither win nor lose!
Whenever you work out pot odds and locate them against you, you have to fold. Even in instances when it seems close. In the long run, you will be saving cash by folding.