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Pot odds are only useful if a player has enough equity.Equity is the chance a player has to win the hand at showdown.It is calculated as the fraction of remaining cards in the deck for each remaining street (sequential card being dealt, e.g. turn, river) that can give a player the winning hand.
In no-limit or pot-limit poker, a player's M-ratio (also called "M number", "M factor" [1] or just "M") is a measure of the health of a player's chip stack as a function of the cost to play each round.
If Alice's probability of winning is 50%, her equity in the $36 pot is $18 (a gain in equity because her $12 is now "worth" $18). If her probability of winning is only 10%, Alice loses equity because her $12 is now only "worth" $3.60 (amount of pot * probability of winning). Texas hold 'em example Alice holds J♦ 8♠. Bob holds K♥ 7♠.
A guide to playing Texas Hold’em, the most popular variation of poker at most online and brick-and-mortar casinos
Texas Hold'em has a lot of swings due to the rounds of betting and the turn and river cards. Keep those chips for a time when you have the best hand and want to take advantage with a re-raise or call.
In some popular variations of poker such as Texas hold 'em, the most widespread poker variant overall, [3] a player uses the best five-card poker hand out of seven cards. The frequencies are calculated in a manner similar to that shown for 5-card hands, [4] except additional complications arise due to the extra two cards in the 7-card poker hand.
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The second part is the equity obtained when the opponent(s) fold to your raise (i.e. the total current pot), minus the equity resulting in case your opponent(s) call your raise (i.e. your showdown equity in the post-raise pot). As the post-raise pot is larger than the current pot, fold equity can be positive as well as negative.