Thread: Comparing odds.
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CaseAce
Old 07-01-2006, 12:27 AM #32 (permalink)  

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Originally Posted by zook
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Originally Posted by jackvance
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Originally Posted by zook
These are backwards. You want your pots odds to be higher than your "outs ratio" as you put it (your odds against making the hand).
what?..
You want to be getting better pot odds than your odds against making the hand. A flush is 4:1 against, so you want to be getting higher than 4:1 pot odds. Correct?
Thanks for posting that link, it pretty much explains what I am confused on.

Thank you everyone.

Edit :
Odds = (100 / 20) - 1
= 5 - 1
= 4:1

In that link. Do you always use 100?

It's under How to calculate hand odds (the shorter way):
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