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No Limit - Pot Odds (Adv)
Pot odds should dictate every decision you make. In theory, a perfect online poker player would be the one able to calculate pot odds exactly. He would have to be able to precisely predict other peoples actions to know how much money will enter the pot, and also make accurate assessments of other peoples hands to work out his chance of winning with poker.
Let’s first recap what pot odds are.
When facing an immediate decision (usually whether to call a bet), Pot Odds compare the return you will get on your investment with the chance you have of winning the hand.
In a simple example, suppose someone raises you allin, for it to be profitable over the long run for you to call, your percentage chance of winning should be greater than the percentage of the final pot your call represents.
Usually the calculation is far more complicated. Many times you will have to make these calculations with more than one betting round to come. Eg when on the flop, to work out the potential return on a call, you need work out the total amount other people will put into the pot for you to win between now and the showdown.
This obviously depends on what bets are made and how many people stay in the poker hand. Once you calculate the ratio of winnings to immediate investment, you must compare this figure with your current chance of winning the hand to decide whether there is value in calling the bet. You then should repeat this thought process on the turn.
Examples
1 - The river has been dealt, and not holding the nuts you cant be sure whether you are winning. An opponent makes a bet, should you call? Work out the final pot size should you call, and divide by the size of the call. Say this figure came out as five to one. Therefore if you rate your chance of having a better hand as one in five or more, you should call.
2 - You hold 5 9, the board comes AK9. Your opponent bets and you suspect he has an ace or a king, but not both. So you think you will need to hit a 5 or 9 to win. The chance of hitting one of the five "outs" on the next card is 1 in 10. Therefore you should not call a bet if you don’t think your final profit will be more than ten times the amount of the bet. (Remember to include the amount of the call as part of your eventual profit.)
3 - You are on a flush draw after the flop. The chance of hitting your flush on the next card is about 1 in 6. To decide whether a call is worthwhile, you should bear in mind how much you could make should you hit your draw.
So, were you to make your flush on the turn, the total return would be the size of the pot after the flop plus the total you got out of your opponents after the turn.
However if you miss on the turn, you will then have again a 1 in 6 chance of hitting on the river. Should you hit on the river you will now only have one betting round to draw money from your opponents.
Examples 2 and 3 involved drawing hands. You believed you were behind at the time of the call, but should you hit your draw, you would be reasonably confident of being ahead. This means you are able to bet out your hand if you hit, and the amount you can get your opponent to call must be factored into you final return.
Some refer to this as "Implied Pot Odds. At the moment the current return does not justify making the call. Perhaps your chance of hitting is 1 in 6, but unless further money goes in to the pot, you currently only stand to win four times the value of the call. However you would still be justified in calling if you are confident of making up the shortfall by getting your opponent to call the appropriately sized bet when you hit.
Finally, pot odds can be applied to bluffing also. Suppose you think you have no chance of winning the pot on merit, so could only do so with a bluff. If you make a bluff of size X into a pot size Y, you should consider the value Y/X for different sized bluffs.
This is the ratio of how you will win if the opponent folds, to how much you lose if the bluff is unsuccessful. Say this turns out to be 4 to 1. If you think the chance of your opponent folding is more than 1 in 4, you have reason to make the bluff. Bear in mind, the more you bet, usually the more chance of enticing the fold, but also the smaller the ratio, Y/X becomes.
For example, if the pot stands at $20 a $10 dollar bluff will give a return of 2 to 1 if successful. A $5 dollar bluff will return 4 to 1, but would generally be less likely to success. Calculating the chance of your opponent folding is essential to deciding whether and how much to bluff.
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