Board 8 > question about calculating poker pot odds

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so if there's $10 in the pot, before any betting occurs, then my opponent bets $5, and it's $5 to me in order to call, are my pot odds 5:15 cause there is $15 in the pot when it comes to me, or is it 5:10

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KA POWIE

just imagine that no one will bet in another other street.

You have to risk $5 to win $15 (after the $5 is put in the pot of $10) if you call. So you need to be getting 3:1 or better odds to make your call correct.

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~~~Kuge~~~
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Do you have a quick explanation trying to explain equity? Like taking the outs/% I have of hitting and relating that to pot odds? I'm reading stuff I found on google but I know you're close to a pro or maybe even a pro

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KA POWIE

equity is kind of hard to explain exactly

So here's an article

http://www.cardschat.com/poker-equity.php

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~~~Kuge~~~
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is equity when you relate your odds of making your hand with your pot odds?

after reading two basic articles (and i'll check out your more complex one), this is my neophyte understanding:

1. There's a pot of $20, and you need to put in $5 to call, so your pot odds are 4:1

2. You have 10 outs to make your hand after the flop. # of outs times 4, cause it's the flop. So your odds are 60:40, or 1.5:1. So it would be a correct call to make, cause my pot odds are greater than my odds of making my hand? Something like that? Or is that completely wrong?

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KA POWIE

That's the right idea, sort of. And you can apply things like that to what you should be betting also. As an example, let's say you have AQ going into a flop of Qs, Ts, 2d. It's probably safe to assume you have the better hand going into this round of betting than your opponents do, but there are some pretty good flush and straight draws.out there. Let's assume that no one bets before it gets around to you. Since the flush draw is the most dangerous to your particular hand, you're going to want to bet an amount so that anyone on a flush or straight draw will decide not to chase. Since a flush has a ~40% chance of occurring after that flop, they will not want to play if they have to call a bet that's more than 40% of the pot. Let's say the pot as it is is $6. Therefore, a bet of $4 would make the pot $10. As you can plainly see, they would then have to call $4, or 40% of the pot, to be able to have a chance at that $10. Make sense?

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^ yeah I understand that. But what happens if it's on the turn, and that flush has an 18% chance of happening with one card left? How much do you bet then?

Also, what's the most basic way of relating pot odds to the odds of making a hand? Man this is confusing.

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KA POWIE