Basic Pot Odds Questions - Please Help a New Guy

[Al P]

Well the current odds are 9:1 but your "real" odds were 4.5:1 because the total for the round was $20 for a $90 pot.

So before you called the $10 for $50 you needed to tell yourself, "this could cost me $20 for $XX" so my odds are potentially worse than 5:1. But since you have people behind, when they just call you'll be getting 6:1 or 7:1 on your call sometimes too.

It's up to you and your reads on the players to make correct assumptions during play and adjust your odds somewhat accordingly. If you're at a super aggro table and in EP you should scale your odds downwards (worse pot odds) and if you're at a table of calling stations you should scale them upwards (better pot odds).