Quote Originally Posted by Thunder
We both saw calling $10 to win $50 as 1 in 5 (4:1) but by your reckoning of call / (call + pot) it's 10/(10+50) x 100 = 16.67%???
If you are calling $10 to win $50 then your pot odds are 5:1. The break even point for a call is 1/6 which is 16.67%. Refer to the bag of marbles if you don't get it yet (if that's even possible).

In all sincerity, this could explain why you've not made it farther in poker.
I only play SNGs and am quite happy with my progress. Up to a week ago I had taken my last $20 deposit to $500. Am not making tens of thousands but after one year how many are?
The level of your discussion is rather low for someone who has been talking/playing poker for that long, and it's likely seeded in a misunderstanding of something really basic like pot odds. You should probably be like extremely happy someone is pointing this out to you because it's something uber-simple to fix that has to be costing you money.