04-25-2002, 04:01 PM
I'm a pretty new 'live' player and am taking a trip down to lake charles this weekend with a friend to enjoy some low-limit hold em.
One of the things I'd like to concentrate more on is calculating pot-odds better. I ususally have a rough guesstimate of how many bets are in the pot, but often times I'm overly concerned with attempting to read the others players hands and getting a bead on how they are playing those hands. In some cases, especially lower limit games, I think the latter is equally as important as pot-odds - in many cases that is.
At any rate, when I'm in a hand I find myself a little bit overwhelmed at times (especially the hands where I'm really having to think hard about what's going on) with determining the state of my hand - reading other hands that are in the pot and calculating pot odds to determine whether or not it's worth it for me to continue playing the hand.
If anyone has any methods to their madness I would appreciate hearing about it. I'm sure there has to be some "on-the-fly" calculations that one can make that may not give them the exact odds but make it close enough that it warrants a bet or forces you to muck.
Thanks a ton in advance!
One of the things I'd like to concentrate more on is calculating pot-odds better. I ususally have a rough guesstimate of how many bets are in the pot, but often times I'm overly concerned with attempting to read the others players hands and getting a bead on how they are playing those hands. In some cases, especially lower limit games, I think the latter is equally as important as pot-odds - in many cases that is.
At any rate, when I'm in a hand I find myself a little bit overwhelmed at times (especially the hands where I'm really having to think hard about what's going on) with determining the state of my hand - reading other hands that are in the pot and calculating pot odds to determine whether or not it's worth it for me to continue playing the hand.
If anyone has any methods to their madness I would appreciate hearing about it. I'm sure there has to be some "on-the-fly" calculations that one can make that may not give them the exact odds but make it close enough that it warrants a bet or forces you to muck.
Thanks a ton in advance!