Pot Odds

Created by JKDS on July 23, 2009

Definition

The pot odds are the odds the pot is offering you. If you are on the turn and villain bets 50 into a pot of 450, then you have to call a bet of 50 to win 500. So your pot odds are 50:500 or 1:10. When someone says they "had pot odds to call", they mean that the pot odds were favorable compared to the chance their hand would improve. For instance, using the same 1:10 pot odds, if you had a flush draw then you would typically have 9: 46 or 1:5.1 odds. Since these are better than the odds the pot is offering, you have pot odds to call.

Example

Player A: "Why did you call my turn bet?" Player B: "You were offering very nice pot odds to call, and I figured I had at least 6 outs to make my hand."

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