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Message: [QUOTE="joshyb20, post: 377694, member: 2823"] When playing to win money at poker (which if you aren't playing to win money, please sit at my table :) ) your goal is to get maximum gain while minimizing your losses. If you get the feal that you are losing the hand, or if you feel that you are winning the hand, you need to know the odds of you either catching a card to take the lead or for you opponent to do the same respectively. A very simple example. You have AQ. The flop comes J 10 9. Your opponent makes a very strong bet and you buy into that he played either KQ, Q8, or even 7 8 and therefore has the lead in the hand. You are debating whether or not to call or raise or just fold. You look at your hand, the only way for you to win or split the pot would be to either catch an 8 or a K. Q or A or any other card would do you no good if lets say there is no hope for a flush. However, if an 8 falls you have a straight and split, and if a K falls you have the nut straight and win the pot. You have put your opponent on one of the three combos, all containing one of your "outs", or cards that would save you, so there is one "out" that you can eliminate. There are still 3 Ks not accounted for if he were on KQ and 4 8s. That leaves you with 7 outs. Do you want to call that big bet knowing that you have to catch one of only 7 cards that can save you with only two chances? The knowledge of the math involved gives you an edge because you now know your odds. To the beginner poker player there is a lot of luck involved, but as you progress, you will find less and less is left to chance. I didn't want to get in too deep, but I'm sure you can find a lot more on this very subject throughout the forum. Run a search for odds or odds calculation or something along the lines. There are definitely more qualified people to speek on this matter than I, but that should be sufficient to give you some level of understanding of why odds and math are important. :) [/QUOTE]

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