{"id":1760,"date":"2019-03-11T07:36:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T07:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.coinpoker.com\/?p=1760"},"modified":"2019-03-11T07:36:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T07:36:43","slug":"nomercy-classic-drawing-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/nomercy-classic-drawing-odds\/","title":{"rendered":"NoMercy Monday: Classic Drawing Odds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><em>In this strategy series, CoinPoker\u2019s Chief Community Manager and pro poker player Isabelle \u201cNo Mercy\u201d Mercier walks you through the basics of the game. Each No Mercy Monday comes with expert advice on how to play, \u00a0and it all starts with starting hands.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>**<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Knowing <a href=\"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/starting-hand-position1\/\"><strong>how to play your starting hands<\/strong><\/a>, understanding the notion of <a href=\"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/no-mercy-position2\/\"><strong>position<\/strong><\/a>, the art of <a href=\"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/no-mercy-art-of-bluffing-p1\/\"><strong>bluffing<\/strong><\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/nomercy-aggressive-style1\/\"><strong>being aggressive<\/strong><\/a>, are four concepts that are part of the most important strategies in <strong>No Limit Hold\u2019em Poker.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">For the past few weeks, we moved on the essential topic of calculating odds. We started with explaining how you can determine your <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/nomercy-calculations-pot-odds1\/\">drawing odds<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/nomercy-observation-calculations\/\">the importance of observation<\/a><\/strong>, and<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/nomercy-adapt-calculations\/\">adapting calculations<\/a><\/strong> based on those observations. Next up are\u00a0the most common, we&#8217;ll call them classic, drawing odds in poker.<\/p>\n<h2><b>Understanding Classic Drawing Odds<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>The number of outs and percentages for the classic draws we&#8217;ll be covering in this chapter are the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Flush Draw<\/strong><\/span>: <strong>9<\/strong> Outs (<strong>36%<\/strong> on the flop \/ <strong>18%<\/strong> on the turn)<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Open-Ended Straight Draw<\/strong><\/span>:<strong> 8 <\/strong>Outs (<strong>32%<\/strong> on the flop \/ <strong>16%<\/strong> on the turn)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Gutshot Straight Draw<\/strong><\/span>: <strong>4<\/strong> Outs (<strong>16%<\/strong> on the flop \/ <strong>8%<\/strong> on the turn)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Open-Ended + Flush Draw<\/strong><\/span>: <strong>15<\/strong>\u00a0Outs (<strong>60%<\/strong> on the flop \/ <strong>30%<\/strong> on the turn)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Two Overcards + Flush Draw<\/strong>:<\/span> <strong>15<\/strong>\u00a0Outs (<strong>60%<\/strong> on the flop \/ <strong>30%<\/strong> on the turn)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You should know these numbers by heart, despite the fact that they are really easy to count on the spot. As we mentioned earlier, these numbers are not 100% precise, but they are accurate enough for you to be able to apply the\u00a0<b>times 4 \/ times 2 formula<\/b> and calculate your drawing odds.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We will now push this concept further by looking at the pot odds It is great to know that you have a <strong>25%<\/strong> or <strong>35%<\/strong> chance of completing your draw, but it is just as crucial to know how to evaluate these percentages in relation to the bets or the raises that you are facing.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Your drawing odds must be higher than your pot odds in order to make the correct play.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What this means, is that your drawing odds must be higher than your pot odds in order to make the correct play. Inversely, when you have a made hand and you are facing an opponent that is drawing, knowing these odds will allow you to adjust your bet or your raise, forcing them to make an incorrect play (mathematically speaking) by calling you.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever you do that, you are playing successful poker, no matter the outcome of the hand!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stay tuned next week for some concrete examples and applications of the drawing odds in relation to the pot odds. In the meantime, you can join me weekly in the Hubble Bubble tournaments and Sunday\u2019s Andromeda events to practice your skills and try to win my 10,000 CHP or 25,000 CHP bounties!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong><em>&#8211; Isabelle \u201cNo Mercy\u201d Mercier<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this strategy series, CoinPoker\u2019s Chief Community Manager and pro poker player Isabelle \u201cNo Mercy\u201d Mercier walks you through the basics of the game. Each No Mercy Monday comes with expert advice on how to play, \u00a0and it all starts with starting hands. ** Knowing how to play your starting hands, understanding the notion of <a href=\"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/nomercy-classic-drawing-odds\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  NoMercy Monday: Classic Drawing Odds<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189],"tags":[75,87,92,125,130,131,140],"class_list":["post-1760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-strategy","tag-isabelle-mercier","tag-mtt-strategy","tag-nomercy","tag-poker-odds","tag-poker-strategy","tag-poker-tournament-strategy","tag-pot-odds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}