Pot odds

The price of a call: your call ÷ everything in the middle once you call. Win more often than that and calling pays.

Example

The pot is 20 and a friend bets 10. Call 10 and 40 is in the middle: 10 ÷ 40 = 25%, so you need to win at least 1 time in 4. Said as odds: 30 to 10, or 3 to 1.

Also written: pot-odds, price.

Related

• equity Your share of the pot if every card were dealt out: how often your hand wins from here.
• outs The unseen cards that would turn your hand into the likely winner.
• implied odds Chips you expect to win on later rounds if you hit, on top of what is in the pot now.

Practise it in 5 minutes The price of a call, a short free lesson.

Quads is for adults, 18 and over. It teaches with play chips only: there is no real money, ever.