This can not be better illustrated than through an example and that is exactly what is going to be done here.
Let’s state you are playing on the web hold’em and you have a hand of 8, nine suited in a game with the small blind of $3 and the huge blind of $6. Then you call the raise that came from 1 player and all the other players do that also. There are 6 players in total in the poker room. So the pot added up to $36 or more from now.
In the flop, the cards you can see are Js , 7h, and 4h.
Now, a difficult decision lies ahead of you. Once you have seen the flop you realize that you have a gutshot to a nuts straight because you are today missing only a ten from hitting that hand. The idea is to determine whether it is worth it to draw for the nuts or not.
The player in 1st stance bets and the following two players that are stitted before you call. So the pot became somewhere around $45. if you are looking after that gutshot straight then you have to think about the fact that it has four outs that are the card you are missing, the ten in this example. four cards out of the total of 47 cards left in the deck. So odds are 4:47. On the river the cards in the deck decrease by 1 so the odds become 4:46. Simplifying, it turns out that to hit the straight on the turn you have 1:11 chances. The pot odds are in your favor because you today have to call $3 for the amount of $45 accumulated so far.
On the turn, the following cards are put on the table: 6s, 4h, 7h, Js. This means that you have today the chance to draw to two straights and you are hoping for either 1 of the following cards: a 5 or a ten. The outs merely became nine for you hand and the odds merely better on your side. Now your odds of hitting the draw are doubled because there are 8 outs. And, in addition to that in this case you have the chance of hitting a different hand also, a flush and for that you require any spade card. For the flush there are nine outs. There is a 5 of spades and a ten of spades that are already counted as outs, so they will not be counted again. This basically means that your odds to improve the hand are 9+4:46, meaning 15:46 or about 33% for your draw to hit. This is a pretty good percent and even if the ones situated in front of you bet or raise, you can still get a good pot odd also.
It is crucial for you to learn over time to instantly compute pot and implied odds both. You have always to compute you pot odds, based on what is situated today on the table, and then try and think about future bets and recalculate the pod and its odds, this way you get to the true meaning of implied odds.
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