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."
Created by
JKDS on 23 Jul, 2009
