Poker Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
You have 9 outs
You have 9 outs to make your flush on the Turn. Using the 2% method, you estimate your odds of hitting one of your outs as: 9 x 2% = 18% or approximately 4 to 1 There is $50 in the pot that you can win and It will cost you $20 to make the call. You would be getting 2 1/2 to 1 odds on your money. In this case you are not priced in to make the call.
There is $30 in the pot
There is $30 in the pot pre-flop, with 2 other online players in the hand. After the flop, the pre-flop raiser bets $15 and the other holdem player calls. There is now $60 in the pot and it will cost you $15 to make the call. It will cost you $15 to win $60. You are getting 4 to 1 on your money. In this case your pot odds equal your odds of making a flush.