Pot Odds in Relation to Chip Stack
poker is a game consisting of many variables, only some of which tend to get properly considered, even by the more cognizant of casino online players. The idea of pot odds, wherein a player will see a flop with a marginal hand, using the odds of the small price they have to pay to win a bit pot, is one of the more tricky considerations, and one that often can get misused when a player does not also, in his calculations, consider what it is he has to gain, based on the chips he has in front of him.
The major thing it seems many players tend to miss when considering the value of pot odds, is the relation of the price of the bet in relation to their stack. Committing too much of your stack on ‘pot odds’ without the proper value behind it is just as worthless as paying too much without the poker online odds at all.
For instance, if you are playing $80 in a $1/$2 no limit game (which is a weak buy in, but one that many players do) and someone makes it $12 to go, you have to consider the percentage of the $12 bet to your $80 is a high amount for prospecting. Even when you are getting several other people in the pot, you are calling off nearly a sixth of your total chips to try and hit a flop that likely will not come. Two or three of these kinds of attempts later, you’ve turned your buy-in into a short stack without even playing a ‘real hand.’ Committing chips with a prospecting sort of hand is only a smart use of ‘pot odds’ when you have a stack behind you to back it up.