You are sitting at the table and you look down at your holecards to find a suited connector. Have you ever wondered what are the odds of flopping a straight, or maybe just catching 2 more cards of the same suit on the flop.
Remember back to the day in Probability and Statistics class when you yelled at your teacher saying, "when will knowing the odds of picking a red ball out of a bucket be useful to my life!!" Looks like today is the day. Those equations you dreaded back then are the same ones we can use today when playing Texas Holdem.
In Part 1, we talked about the percentages of making a drawing hand in Texas Holdem. Knowing the percentage is one thing, but knowing the odds is the piece of information that will help you decide if it's wise to put your money in the pot. Like the percentage, calculating the odds is just a simple mathematical formula.
