pot odds

[JAYCISM]

i needd to know what pot odds are. i kinda understand what they are but am not 100% on them. i also need to know what position on a person is.ive heard about these things and need to get a better understanding about them. thanks, JAYCISM

[mafalda34]

let see if i can explain to u all those very important things.

Imagine u hold 910 and the board is QJ 5 the pot has 1000 chips on it.

At the moment u have nothing but a good draw, lets see how many outs do u have to make a winning hand, lets say your opponent has Q5.

So u have 8 remaining spades (the 5 will give him a full house) + 3 Kings (we have counted one before the K) + 3 eights (we counted one before) + running 9s or 10s.

So at the moment u have 14 outs (this situation is one of the bests situations u can face on a holdem hand)

Then theres the 4 and 2 rule. Its very simple, on the flop u multiply the number of outs by 4 and u have the percentage. In this case 14x4 u have 56% chance to make a winning hand.

On the turn u have to multiply the outs by 2 to now what are your chances.

So here if your opponent bets from 0 to 560 chips, u have the odds to call remember 56%.

Theres a more advanded theory that talks about u can call even when u dont have the odds to do it, because if u make your hand the other player is likely to give out all his chips but thats not the case because if a spade comes on the turn or the river he may think his two pair is not that good.



Now lets talk about position. The positions on a 6 handed poker table are the SB, the BB, under the gun, UTG +1, UTG +2 and the button.

On a 9 man table there are three more intermediate positions. The position u are on each moment determine what hands and how u should play them.

For example u shouldnt play something like K 10, under the gun because if somebody raise from behind u have to fold it, but u can play it from the button if there were no raises before u.

Also u can limp with aces under the gun, trying to induce more action, but it would be terrible if u limp with aces on the button when there were some limpers.

On the internet there are a lot of good tips from experts talking about position and pot odds that would be very interesting to read, i also recommend reading some books as Harrington on holdem 123, supersystem....

I hope u can learn something from everything written here and if u have more questios u can PM me when ever u want

[lmille4574]

I thought pot odds was the calculation of what you are getting out of the pot oppsed to what you are putting in. example 3 to on your money. the explanation above which is great would be for outs not pot odds.

Still learning so I can be wrong.

[FortMyersDrew]

pot oods are say you put in $1 and you have 4 callers at $1 making the pot $5 to your $1 so your pot odds are 1 to 5 which basically means you have a chance to more than quadruple your money

[wheeloftime]

Originally Posted by mafalda34

let see if i can explain to u all those very important things.

Imagine u hold 910 and the board is QJ 5 the pot has 1000 chips on it.

At the moment u have nothing but a good draw, lets see how many outs do u have to make a winning hand, lets say your opponent has Q5.

So u have 8 remaining spades (the 5 will give him a full house) + 3 Kings (we have counted one before the K) + 3 eights (we counted one before) + running 9s or 10s.

So at the moment u have 14 outs (this situation is one of the bests situations u can face on a holdem hand)

Then theres the 4 and 2 rule. Its very simple, on the flop u multiply the number of outs by 4 and u have the percentage. In this case 14x4 u have 56% chance to make a winning hand.

On the turn u have to multiply the outs by 2 to now what are your chances.

So here if your opponent bets from 0 to 560 chips, u have the odds to call remember 56%.

Theres a more advanded theory that talks about u can call even when u dont have the odds to do it, because if u make your hand the other player is likely to give out all his chips but thats not the case because if a spade comes on the turn or the river he may think his two pair is not that good.



Now lets talk about position. The positions on a 6 handed poker table are the SB, the BB, under the gun, UTG +1, UTG +2 and the button.

On a 9 man table there are three more intermediate positions. The position u are on each moment determine what hands and how u should play them.

For example u shouldnt play something like K 10, under the gun because if somebody raise from behind u have to fold it, but u can play it from the button if there were no raises before u.

Also u can limp with aces under the gun, trying to induce more action, but it would be terrible if u limp with aces on the button when there were some limpers.

On the internet there are a lot of good tips from experts talking about position and pot odds that would be very interesting to read, i also recommend reading some books as Harrington on holdem 123, supersystem....

I hope u can learn something from everything written here and if u have more questios u can PM me when ever u want

you know I have had alot of people try and explain outs to me and position, yet I guess I never really grasped it. Your explaination was a simple concise straight to the point. Thanks.