A different way of looking at pot odds.
I seriously confused myself after thinking about this. Can anyone help me out?
Lets start with a situation.
Player A and player B are playing heads up, and they each have 100 chips.
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Player A is first to act, and bets 99 of his 100 chips. Player B raises all in for 1 more.
Now, Player A is asked to call 1 chip into a pot of 199. He is getting 199-1 on his money, so obviously he should call for the flush draw.
So, by pot odds, player A made the right call, but were his odds really 1-199? Were his true pot odds 1-1? Because, obviously, if he had checked and player B bet 100, he would be getting incorrect odds to call, but the situation I described is basically the same thing.
Anyways, I'm sure I confused alot of you with this, but I guess my question is, can pot odds be determined by all of the bets of that betting round, or just the single bet you are dealing with.
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