Playing cash tables of 10c/25c, i was not playing that well, but i was still in profit. I come across a little fishy called '3factor', i raise the button with K4spades, and he takes his time and min raises me, i call for value and the board come something like 8-9-9 with 2 spades, he pushes for only $2 more in a $5 pot, i know im (jess=cool) beat and that he probably has AA or KK but i call for pot odds and hit the flush on the river, he shows AA and i told him 'i know' lol. We had about a 20 minute discussion on the subject because he is such a bad loser. He kept goin on about 'you knew you were behind but you called anyway, how good are you?' and all the other fishy talk.
Well i put it to him by explaining pot odds but the little fishy brain popped, sorry man, too much to take in a guess. Well for any fish reading this like this AA sore thumb, here are a lesson in pot odds and calculating:
A Lesson In Calculating odds:
I am goin to use the example of my hand with AA.
two rules: x2 and x4
hands: AA vs K4 spades
flop: 8-9-9 two spades
K4 outs: 2s, 3s, 5s, 6s, 7s, 10s, Js, Qs, =8 outs.
where rules come in, to calculate odds of hitting on the turn, you multply your outs my 2 (because of roughly 50 cards in deck) so 8x2=16%
Hitting by the river is mutliplied by 4 becuase of of double the chance of hitting, so..8x4 =32%.
I was 32% to win the pot. Now i couldnt call if my pot odds were not allowing me to, this is how to calculate pot odds:
A Lesson In Pot Odds And How To Calculate Them:
Now im not a genius at this but here are the basics:
pot =$5
he bets $2 so pot is $7 and im 32% to win the pot
He is asking me to put $2 into a $7 pot which will make it $9, so my pot odds are 7/2,
100% divided by 7 = near 14%.......14x2 =28%
this means to call and for it to be correct, i need to be at least 28% to win the pot, which i was so it was the correct call.
So fishy, before you have a go at me for hitting a draw just think what pot odds i was getting, thankyou.
Hope you all learned somethng.
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One correction is that your pot odds calculation is 2/7 because you are committing 2 to win 7 (the existing pot before your bet)...but that means you have to commit 28% to win 32% of the time. You had pot odds, but just barely.
ok thanks, i will change it now, i did mention im a bit rusty =D
bk is corect. What I want to know, is why you are teaching the fish????
Just take what they say with a pinch of salt, don't make them a better player!!!!!! :o)
ATB
BM
I just tols him a i was getting pot odds and he didnt really understand lol. I didnt teach him as such and i dont think any fish read my blog.
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