Poker: Pot Odds and Equity: OverviewThis instructable will cover the concepts of pot odds and equity and one of the ways you can use them to improve your poker game. These concepts are applied to gain insight to a given hand using information like pot size and number of outs.
Poker hand odds: Any poker player knows the odds of winning the game in most situations. Poker is a game of percentages and probability and not a game of luck. Whether you like it or not odds are the very basis of decisions you will make at the poker table.

There are 2,598,960 many possible 5-card Poker hands. Thus the probability of obtaining any one specific hand is 1 in 2,598,960 (roughly 1 in 2.6 million). The probability of obtaining a given type of hands (e.g. Three of a kind) is the number of possible hands for that type over 2,598,960. Thus this is primarily a counting exercise.

Real Money Poker Games » Texas Holdem Poker » after Flop Outs Percentages and Odds

For those unfamiliar with outs, an 'out' is the term used in the after-flop betting rounds to describe any card among the unseen cards in the deck that can substantially improve the value of your hand on the next card turned up.

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For example, if after the flop you happen to have a total of four hearts, then your hand has nine 'outs' because there are nine of the original thirteen hearts still left in the unseen remaining deck. A much weaker draw hand would be for example, an inside straight. This hand only has four outs because the only cards left in the deck that can complete the straight would be the four cards of the missing denomination.

Of course, the more outs you have the better chance you have of making a strong hand. This chart offers some extra ways to look at and evaluate those chances. All Texas Holdem hands have 47 unseen cards after the flop and 46 after the turn. The chart is nothing more than the number of outs and these two unseen cards amounts, expressed in different ways.

Those on mobile devices or tablets may wish to view the holdem after flop outs odds chart in high quality .pdf format.

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It might be interesting for you to note that when you double the number of outs, you get a number that is approximately the expected hit percentage of a single draw to your hand. For example, 8 outs equals about 16% (actually 17.02%) and 12 outs equals about 24% (actually 25.53%). You might find similar references or comparisons that you can use.

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