I need to learn to calc' the odds...

[MrGrob]

I cannot fnid a post about a hold'em odds book that is out there, and I was also looking for a book that would give me the skills to calc' the odds for myself, so that I am not just following a chart blindly.

Anyone know the title to the best hold'em odds book and a good solid statistics book that could teach me the math behind the odds? It have been many years, but math used to be my subject...though I have forgotten way too much....

Thanks!

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

Here it is:

Number of cards that make your hand divided by total cards unseen = your odds of making your hand.

Odds of completing your 4-flush with 1 card to come:
9 cards remaining of your suit and 46 cards unseen means you have a 9/46 or 19.6% or 1 in 5.1 or 4.1 to 1 against odds of making your flush.

If you also have an ace and you want to include your outs to catching a pair of aces, then you have 3 more good cards:
12 remaining out of 46 gives you 12/46 or 26% or 1 in 3.8 or 2.8 to 1 against odds of either making a flush or pairing your ace.

There are also a bunch of tables in the back of Super System, as well as several charts in The Intelligent Guide to Texas Hold'Em Poker by Sam Braids. I haven't read that book yet, but it does include several charts with various probabilities and odds.

[Lost Wages]

Petriv's "Hold'ems Odds Book" available at Gamblers Book Club is the one and only.

Lost Wages

[maurile]

Read this essay a few times:

Theory of Sucking Out According to Abdul

[deacsoft]

Find the article called Pot Odds Made Easy by Krieger on www.cardplayer.com.

[deacsoft]

Here's a direct link to the article:

http://www.cardplayer.com./poker_mag...php?a_id=13913

[MrGrob]

n/m

[Blake Lovely]

I would suggest getting a finite math book, or just looking up poker odds on the internet, google has a few sites that tell you how to do combination functions and stuff.