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Knowing the odds in holdem can help you win a lot of hands and keep you out of trouble in others. When you hear holdem players talking about pot odds they'll often talk about counting the outs. This simply means counting the number of cards that they can win with. Before we get to that though we need to know about pocket odds.
Its not enough to know which are the best hands in hold em or which are the worst hands in hold em. There's a whole range of possibilities in between and this is where we have to get to grips with the holdem starting hands odds or pocket odds.
Why?
Because knowing the holdem starting card odds will let you make an informed decision about whether to enter the game or fold, and whether you should see the bet or raise it. On the following pages we have listed a percentage odds of winning for every possible hand you'll come across and for table sizes up to nine players (ie you and 8 other poker players). As a general rule of thumb, I would generally never play any hands in hold em with a less than 30% pocket odds if they didn't have something else going for them (eg they have the potential to make a straight and flush and I can enter the pot cheaply) If you look at the pocket odds tables on the following pages, this can see you playing all kinds of hands (pocket pairs, King High, Queen high,Jack High, and the lower cards)depending on how many other players there are. As well as these holdem win percentages and number of opponents, you must take account of your position at the table before deciding to enter a pot.
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