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Going to call a raise. With implied odds, you're
thinking about reactions for the rest of the game. One last example on
implied odds...
Say it's another $5/$10 holdem game and you have a four flush on the
flop. Your neighbor bets, and everyone else folds. The pot is $50 at
this point. First you figure out your chance of hitting your flush on
the turn, and it comes out to about 19.1% (about 1 in 5). You have to
call this $5 bet vs a $50 pot, so that's a 10x payout. 1/5 is higher
than 1/10, so bet odds are okay, but you must consider that this guy's
going to bet into you on the turn and river also. That's the $5 plus two
more $10 bets. So now your facing $25 more till the end of the hand. So
you have to consider your chances of hitting that flush on the turn or
river, which makes it about 35% (better than 1 in 3 now), but you have
to invest $25 for a finishing pot of $100. $100/$25 is 1 in 4. That's
pretty close. But there's more!... if you don't make it on the turn,
it'll change your outs and odds! You'll have a 19.6% chance of hitting
the flush (little worse than 1 in 5), but a $20 investment for a
finishing pot of $100! $100/$20 is 1 in 5. So the chances would take a
nasty turn if you didn't hit it! What's makes it more complicated is
that if you did hit it on the turn, you could raise him back, and get an
extra $20 or maybe even $40 in the pot.
I'll let it go at that, as once you've mastered simple outs and pot
odds, bet and implied odds are just a longer extension of these
equations. If you sit and think about these things while you play, it'll
come to you eventually without any tutoring. Good luck!
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Pot Odds |
The odds you get when analyzing the current
size of the pot vs. your next call.
"There's $200 already in the pot, and only another $10 bet
coming at me, so my pot odds are good if I hit that flush." |
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Bet Odds |
The odds you get as a result of evaluating
the number of callers to a raise. "With a 1 in 5 chance of
hitting it, and knowing all six of these guys are gonna call my
bet, my bet odds are good too." |
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Implied Odds |
The odds you are getting after the assumed
result of betting for the remainder of the hand. "Since I think
these guys are going to call on the turn and river, my implied
odds are excellent." |
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