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Message: [QUOTE="SavagePenguin, post: 776413, member: 22087"] Like they said, outs are the cards that will give you the winning hand. Since you can't see their cards you can only estimate what your outs are. If you need one card for a flush after the flop, you have about a 1/3 chance of hitting it by the river. Of course, if it missed the turn then it's 1/5 for it to come up on the river. What I do to get a rough estimate of percentages is to to count the number of cards that will help me, and multiply it by 4 on the flop or by 2 on the turn. For example, if I figure there are 8 cards that'll give me my open-ended straight, on the flop I have 4 x 8 chance of getting the winning hand. Or a 32% chance (it's actually a tad better than that). If there are 8 cards that fill my open-ended draw on the turn, then I multiply by 2. 8 x 2 = 16, so I have about a 16% chance. These percentages are usually a tad short of the actual percentages, but close enough. [/QUOTE]