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Message: [QUOTE="feitr, post: 928695, member: 34106"] In cash games, pot odds can rarely be separated from implied odds. The exception is when you are figuring out whether or not to call a river bet and you can compare your pot odds to the odds that you are ahead of villain's range (so maybe you have a bluff catcher and if you are getting 3:1 pot odds to make the call villain has to be bluffing > 1 in 4 times for it to be profitable). Say you have 3:1 pot odds to call a oesd on the flop. Your 4.8:1 (not 5.8:1) is the odds of hitting your hand from flop to turn. It now depends on what you think villain will do on the turn/your implied odds for the hand (related to the strength of villain's range). If you aren't likely to face a turn bet then you do have odds (even in the absence of any implied odds) to draw to your hand. You will have a 2:1 chance of hitting your straight by the river, giving 3:1 pot odds on the flop. Let's say that villain will bet the turn, but that villain probably has a strong holding where you have implied odds. Say villain bets $40 into a $60 pot on the flop. You have a flush draw and so have 1:4 chance of hitting your hand from flop to turn. You are given 2:5 pot odds to make the call. To make the flop call profitable, you only need to gain another >$60 total in the hand (because you would have now invested $40 to make $60 + $40 + $60 = $160 and $40:$160 is the 1:4 you needed. If villain has any sort of hand this shouldn't be hard seeing as the pot after the flop would be $140 so this isn't even a half pot sized bet. If you missed on the turn, you'd have to reevaluate and figure out whether or not the pot odds you are getting on the turn, when combined with the amount of value you could get from villain on the river, makes it a +EV play. [/QUOTE]

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