[GTSamIAm]

That's not necessarily what you should do, but it's just a trick to help you know the percentages for each number of outs. It's not as exact as knowing the exact percentages in your head, but it's far easier. And BTW, you shouldn't just count outs, you should count partial outs. You multiply each out by the chance that you will win if you hit it. If you have, say, the king of spades and there are 3 spades on the board, there is a chance that someone might have the ace of spades and beat your flush if you hit. So instead of saying you have 9 outs, you might say, I'll win 90% of the time I hit my flush, so you would count yourself as having about 8 outs.