Thanks, that was what I was looking for. As I said before I have a pretty firm grasp of statistics from a mathematical standpoint so I'm grasping the pot odds and utilizing betting to manipulate those pretty easily.

The key differentiator that I wasn't catching on to was that the #BB betting was pre flop and the pot betting was post flop, that makes more sense now.

Two things I was also curious about then though:

1. When calcuating the pot odds or other statistics like implied odds etc, how does one take into account the cards that were dealt to the other players (or burned) that are now out of play? It seems that the way the odds are calculated is a slight misrepresentation of what would/could actually appear on the board, but I don't see any way around it from a statistical standpoint.

2. Is it really that standardized post flop that you simply would bet 1/2 pot, pot, or 2xpot etc? It just seems odd to me (partly due to my naivete I'm sure) I bet 4xBB in the blind so lets call that 16 for examples sake, get 2 callers, then on the flop still feel I have the best hand so now I'm betting > 50 to bet pot? I'm not sure I've ever bet like this unless I flopped the nuts and then it was a scramble for people to fold...

-Shaun