Tournament Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
By making the call, you would be risking $25
By making the call, you would be risking $25 in order to win $175. $175 / $25 = 7 To 1. In other words, the pot is 7 times as large as your call. If you were to play this hand out 8 times, you would only need to win once in order to break even.
Determining Pot Odds When on a Draw
Determining Pot Odds When on a Draw When you are behind in a hand, but have outs to win, you will need to calculate pot odds when faced with a bet, in order to calculate if you are priced in correctly to make the call.