Could somebody please explain pot odds to me in texas hold em.?

Question

Please try to make it as simple as possible. Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

Pot odds are the ratio of the current size of the pot to the cost of a contemplated call. In other words, if the pot contains $100, and a player must call $10 to stay in the hand, then the player has 100-to-10, or 10-to-1 pot odds. Pot odds are often compared to the probability of winning a hand with a future card in order to estimate the call's expected value.

Here is an easy example:
Lets say you have Ace Two suited of hearts. The Flop and Turn are already on the board, and they contain two hearts, which means you need the River to be a heart for you to hit your flush, otherwise you have nothing but high card Ace.
Let's say your pot odd's are 10-1, as stated above. It will cost you $10 to see that final card to find out if you hit the flush and have the winning hand. Well, there are 13 hearts in the deck total, you have four of them [two in your hand, two on the board], which means there are 9 hearts left in the deck that can be drawn for the river. You need 1 of these 9. This means that over the long run, 1 out of 9 times you will draw your winning hand and win the $100 pot, but you will spend $80 during the 8 out of 9 times that you don't hit the hand.

That's the simple facts about pot odds.

If you would like to get into a more complicated aspect of it,
think about this:
Let's say youre in the hand from above with 3 other players. You have 9 hearts left to draw on the river, and mathematics will tell you that you can't be certain that any of those 3 players DOES have a heart, but common sense will tell you that out of their 6 cards [2 cards each]. someone PROBABLY has a heart or two, so maybe you might want to figure that a lot of times your odds are NOT going to give you 9 cards to draw, but maybe 8 or 7.
On the flip side of that is the IMPLIED ODDS. Implied Odds are not what the Pot and Pot Odds are worth, but what they WILL be worth after the final card. So your pot odds are $10 to try to win $100, but what if you DO hit that heart? There's 3 other guys that have been putting money into the pot just as you have this whole time, so let's say one guy has pocket Kings, one guy has trip 7's, the other guy has Top Two Pair.
If you hit your heart, all three of these guys are still going to call another $10 bet to see if their hand wins the pot, which would make it then worth $140 instead of $100.
So that is another way of factoring in whether it is in your favor to play the hand or not.

Sorry it was so much reading,
I hope this information helped you.
Good Luck!
Brandon

Answer 2

Well pot odds relate to your hand odds versus the bet you have to make into the pot. For example if the pot is $2,000 and you have to bet $500 to call you are getting 4 to 1 pots odds. If you had has a better than 4 to 1 chance of winning you should call, even without the best hand.

Answer 3

Basically pot odds are the ratio of the money in the pot, versus what it costs you to stay in the hand.

So for example in a cash game imagine there is $50 in the pot. Someone bets $25. So now the pot contains $75. It is going to cost you $25 to win a potential $75. So your pot odds are 75-25 or if factored down 3-1. So by doing some fairly basic math in your head you can realize what 'price' you are being offered to call.

The reason this is important, is if you are on a draw for example four cards to a flush on the flop, you can calculate the odds of you hitting your hand, and compare that with the pot odds.

For example if you have four hearts on the flop, and your hand contains the ace of hearts, you are drawing to the best possible flush. You need one more heart to complete. There are 9 cards in the deck that would make this possible. You've seen three on the flop, and two in your hand. So there are 47 unseen cards, nine of which help your hand.

Nine chances in 47 is about 19% chance. But there is a turn and river to come, so you have two chances to hit one of the nine cards you need to win the pot. Your actual odds of hitting your flush with two cards to come is around 35%.

So let's relate this back to pot odds. Imagine there was $100 in the pot, and someone bet $20 on the flop. It's now going to cost you $20 to win $120. Or 6-1. This is a great position to stay in the hand. You are being offered 6-1 odds payout if you win, but you will win this hand about one in three times.

The idea of pot odds is to play when the math is right and fold when the math is wrong. In the same example as above if the pot was $100, and the only other opponent bet $80, it is going to cost you $80 to win potentially $180. 180-80 or 2.25-1. But as we already discussed, you are only going to make your hand one in three times. So if you took this same proposition three times, on average you would lose twice and win once. But if you are being offered 2.25-1, when you do win you are not actually making back the money you lost on the two times you lost. Therefore it is a bad call.

Realistically, to get this, you need to keep working on it and read a book or two. It's a very difficult concept to fully grasp once you take into account pot odds, implied odds and the odds of hitting your hand. But it is worth learning, because without this information you are making bets that are long term losers and will drain your bank roll.

Answer 4

"Pot odds" indicates how much money you will win, relative to the amount you need to bet to make the call.

Example: If there is $90 in the pot, and you need to call a $10 bet, your pot odds are 9 to 1. If there is $10 in the pot, then your pot odds are 1:1 (even).

It is important to know pot odds to know whether to call when you have a draw. For example, if you have four cards to a flush, you have about a 20% chance to make your flush (or about 4 to 1 against).

In order to call, the pot should have at least 4 times the amount you need to bet. If there is already $90 in the pot, and you need to call $10, you should definitely call. If there is less than $40 in the pot, you should fold.

Edit: On the river, there are 46 cards you don't know. 9 of them will make your flush; 37 of them will not make your flush.

Therefore, you will make your flush 9 times out of 46, or 19.5%, or about 1 out of 5 times.

Answer 5

Pot Odds: The amount in the pot in relation to your chances of making a certain hand and the amount you must put in the pot to continue in the game.

Answer 6

there are 10 hands you can win with, here they are in order of winning hands, best to worst:
-royal flush, 10 jack queen king and ace all of the same suite,
-straight flush, sequential numbers, all the same suite,
-four of a kind, 4 cards of equal face value*
-full house, 3 of a kind and a pair,
-flush, no sequel same suit,
-straight, sequel any suite,
-three of a kind*
-two pairs*
-one pair*
-highest card

*if more than 1 person has it, then it is a split pot and all the winners split the earnings. Hope this helps.

Answer 7

simply the odds of who will win that round