Poker Odds StrategyPlaying poker using an odds strategy doesn't mean that you have to go to a game carrying an odds calculator and charts. If you are going to place your money with the odds, you become a percentage player. In other words, you bet with events that have the greatest chance of happening. However, in poker, that doesn't mean they will. Let's take a game of black and red. With a deck of cards try guessing red and black. The odds are 1 in 2 that you will be right each time you turn a card. When you finish you will have roughly an equal number of right and wrong guesses. So, even when the odds are very good, you were still wrong 26 times. In poker, players are always faced with the unknown. This unknown is made up of cards that they can't see. How does one get a mathematical equation from the invisible? Bodog wants you to win your seat to the 2011 WSOP Main Event in Las Vegas. Online qualifying events run from Monday, July 5th to Saturday, July 17th, with the Bodog Mini Poker Series Final Tournament happening on Thursday, July 22nd. See the full 2010 Bodog Mini Poker Series event schedule for more details.Most of the time a percentage player will win more often than if he wasn't, but the money odds are usually much shorter than odds against play would be. At the beginning of play odds and percentages should not be at the forefront in your mind. There will be enough time for that when the final cards are down. Who knows after a card or two, what their hand is going to turn into? Click here for calculating poker odds There are times when the odds seem safe. Let's say you are playing seven-card stud, and you need a king to fill a straight. You check the other players up cards, and see that three kings are already out. Here, the odds would probably rule. It doesn't mean they'd be right, but it's just a safer play. Take the same situation, only there are no kings showing in the other players up cards? So maybe here, you'd make a move. That doesn't mean your opponents don't have kings in their hands, it's just that the absence of visible malice induces you make the bet. Take the odds strategy with a grain of salt. Match your poker playing skills with the other players. Know how much money you can afford to lose. Don't think that being a percentage player means that you will always go home with your pockets full of cash. There are times when good odds mean nothing. Sometimes lucky is better. And last but not least, trust your instincts. If a little voice from somewhere tells you you're beat-listen! Win your seat into the next 2010 WSOP or WPT event by joining Bodog Poker and playing in a satellite tournament! --- by Bones McCoy at offshorepokerroom.com on March 18, 2006
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