Quote Originally Posted by SuperDave9x19
I THINK i understand pot odds, but the way i understand it it is difficult to calculate it on the fly if you consider a RANGE of hands. I can calculate it pretty easy if i am drawing on the nuts, but i don't get the consequences if i am not going to the nuts. Plus if board pairs and nuts changes to boat, I discount that cause i dunno how to examine it.
At the end of my post I will try to make this more clear

For example. I am in HU and pot is 1000.
In HU? Its just you and another player in the pot? By saying you are "in" it makes it sound like thats your position.

I have Ax clubs and 2clubs come out on flop. 9 of 13 clubs remain, in approximately 47 cards. I like to round numbers so I am going to call this 1/5 chance of a club on the turn and 1/5 chance on river if it doesn't come on turn.

So i have a 1/5 chance to win on either of next 2 cards (ignoring pairing the board, and i want to learn how NOT to ignore it. but ignored for sake of this example.

So villian bet's 100. Clearly that is only 10% of pot and i have 40% change of getting the flush (1/5 + 1/5 cause it's an OR situation) so i bet. Good pot odds. I call.
You have a 40% chance IF youc all both the turn and the river, so you cant figure that in really. Just worry about one street at a time for now. He bets 100 into a pot of 1000, you have to call 100 for a chance to win 1100 chips, so you need to put in less than 10% of the chips, you hit your flush 20% of the time on the turn so this is a call.

But turn did not hit club.

So now pot is 1200. i have 1/5 or 20% chance to get my flush on river. If bet is over 240, it is getting time to fold since my pot odds are decreasing. 240 is close so I may call based on a read, but a bet of 500 makes me think to immediately fold cause I have half the odds to hit that I ampaying...


In this over simplified example, am i basically correct?
Disregarding implied odds, this logic is generally correct [not about the turn 40% chance though]

Or barring my stupid example, can someone put up a clear example?
I was about to post a hand that clearly illustrated making decisions based on pot odds but realized the hand dealt more with implied odds. Im playing right now and Ill try to find a hand that involves pretty straight forward pot odds.