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Edutainment – The Outs Counter 2 of 4

Dec 6, 2007 We’re now going to introduce you to the concept of an “out” and give you a short explanation of how to use them.

An "out" is any card still to come that will make you a winning hand. In the case of a flush draw for example, where nine remaining hearts would make you a flush, these could be considered outs. But only if you were sure that a flush would be enough to win the hand.

Of course, this implies that one knows for sure what kind of hand is required to actually win, meaning one knows exactly what hands one is up against. This is obviously rarely the case (at least for those of us without X-ray vision).

Thus, counting outs involves a large element of hand reading: guessing what hands the opponents have. In this section opponent hands will be explicitly given to illustrate the basic idea of counting outs. In real play, you will have to guess opponent hands.

An example to illustrate the idea of outs:
Let’s say you have Ah and Kh heads up against the big blind, and the flop comes 2h, 9d, 10h. You don’t have a made hand, but the game board looks fairly harmless and your opponent called out of the big blind, meaning he could have a wide range of hands.

Assuming for the moment that your Ace high will not be enough to win, how many outs do you have? Any heart gives you the nut flush; any Ace or King makes you top pair, top kicker. Unless your opponent has made a lucky set or two-pair, either of those hands should give you the winning hand.

Adding it up, you get nine hearts as outs to the flush, three aces and three kings as outs for top pair, for a total of fifteen outs. But counting outs is sometimes more subtle than it might seem.

Consider a similar situation to above: you have Ah and Kh heads up on the flop against the big blind, but this time the board reads 5d, 9d, 7d. This is a much scarier flop for you. You no longer have a flush draw; instead, you must consider the possibility that your opponent does, or possibly even has a made flush. Straight or straight draw are also possible holdings, as well as the odd two-pair or sets.

Essentially, your six outs to top pair may not always make you the best hand. Therefore, you might not want to count them as full outs, but perhaps as only as half an out each.

These two examples will finish it up for today, but please return tomorrow for some more interesting examples about counting outs. In the meantime you can try out our mini game – The Outs Counter. It’s a lot more exciting than it sounds.

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