Posts Tagged ‘A-9’

How Important Are Pot Odds?

Yesterday I was in a friendly tourney. Something came up. Right after I mucked my straight flush draw on the river based on pot odds and saw the card I needed, I started to think if pots odds are really that important in a tourney ever since. Your thoughts on this?

In ring games I know pot odds are significant in case you want to play with probabilities and make them play in your advantage.

By the way, if I may just share this, I lost AAA once to a guy who called my all-in with lesser chips and with a straight draw on the river. He needed a 9 and then that was it, he got A 9 on the river. Was he just lucky then?

Thank you very much!

Regards,
Turner
Turner,

Pot odds are very important in tournaments. A lot of times it makes the difference in calling an all-in for your tournament life and folding.

In regards to the A-9 hand, he was just lucky. On the flop, he had 16% to win and on the turn he only had 8% to win.

Meaning of X

Hi,

In one of the questions here in your site X as in X9,s-X5s, XX, AX,QX was mentioned. What does X means?

Hope to hear from you soon.

Best regards,
Thomas
Thomas,

It means that the other card is a random card, typically lower than 10. Instead of A-5s it is sometimes represented A-Xs. Usually when doing this, the X is used to cover a range of cards. When it says not to play any Ax’s, that means don’t play any random A-2 through A-9’s.