Poker Odds

[GaNgStA kEeKs]

Ive been doing alright as of late but something has striked me with the more reading ive been doing on the game and that is calculating the odds. Can anyone explain this further too me? As i feel it should enhance my game, or i imagine it would.

[Doc]

Kiko

its a long answer required. Have a look here:

http://web.archive.org/web/200410162...sparadisefrm20

in particular part IV will give you information about pot odds

[aliensyndm]

http://www.cardplayer.com/poker_maga...es/?a_id=13913

This is another good article on pot odds which gives you some nice short cuts on how to remember and use them without getting bogged down memorising lots of numbers.

Have a read and try and take it in...then if you want I'll post up some "puzzles" and you can try and answer them with explanations and see if you understood it all.

[aliensyndm]

Shit hold the boat....I think I have noticed a mistake in this article. Just a minute whilst I get a 2nd opinion

[GaNgStA kEeKs]

Great stuff the both of you. Alien - i will hold you to these puzzles you said. But only once i have read it properly which wont be until tomorow though. Cheers

[aliensyndm]

For fuck sake is nothing sacred....this article has a mistake in it...

the paragraph...

If you have only four outs, our quick proximate measure (4 outs x 2 + 2 = 10) is very close to the actual figure of 10.5. If you have 15 outs, our quick measure yields a figure of 32, while the mathematically precise figure is 32.6 percent.

These are percentages with one card to come btw

He's made a mistake here. The percentage of hitting when you have four outs is 8.69% (4/46). This is odds of odds of 10.5 to 1. He's got the odds mixed up with the percentage. In his next example the percetange of hitting (wtih one card to come) with 15 outs is indeed 32.6% (46/15) or odds of 2.07 to one.

Anyway other than that the article looks ok I think :think

[aliensyndm]

Oh well I felt the need to e mail them and point out their mistake
I wonder what they shall say to me. I mean you really gotta be paying attention to notice errors like that

[GaNgStA kEeKs]

i bet youve been cracking up all night about their error and searching frantically for their details to correct them alien!

[aliensyndm]

Well I got a response saying ...

Thank you for contacting us.

I will forward your submission.

Thank you for your input.

Gregg



So will see if I get anything else in a while