Poker Glossary
Pot Odds
The price the pot offers on a call: the ratio of what you can win to what you must pay. Facing a $20 bet into an $80 pot, you call $20 to win $100 — 5-to-1 — so you need to win just over one time in six, about 17% equity, to break even. Compare the price to your hand’s equity and the call-or-fold decision computes itself.
At the table
Flush draw on the turn (about 19% to hit) facing $20 into $80: you need roughly 17%, you have 19%. The call profits before implied odds even enter the room.
House note
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