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Originally Posted by mundybags1  i think that i would like to know more about the mathamatical part of poker, but when i started to play poker i really didn't know that poker was about math. i always have been good at math so it has been easy for me to make the conection but i still play poker more on feel. I will alway have the math to maybe make a better judgement but i sometimes think that the math can be off when you talk about commitment to a pot, especially in a tournament. |
You did bring up a point about math in tourneys. In tourneys math is less relevant. I will not say it is completly useless, but much less so than in a cash game. In a cash game the math is there to justify close calls that you know to be correct as over time if you always play the math the same, you will profit from making that play. In tourneys the math is still there, the long run is what has gone away so that math is much less relevant. This is why I think cash games are where the true sill lies and tourenys are all about short term luck. Does this make sense?
Here is where we have discussed calculating pot odds on the site before
How to calculate pot odds
Note that the original post has the right idea but the math is wrong. Read down and I posted a link to Lou Kreigers article "Pot Odds Made Easy" which is a great article that explains odds (I would have posted the link here myself but websense blocks the URL from me when I am at work).
PoWdas link added by Good Karma Kid:
Pot Odds Article by Lou Kreiger
I hope this helps.
