Odds And Outs

Outs are the number of cards you could hit to win a pot.If you know how many outs you have then you can calculate whether you are getting the correct pot odds to chase those outs.Lets ssay you are sitting with the AK of clubs and the flop is 2of clubs,4 of clubs,6 of hearts.There is 400 in the pot and you are heads up with a player who has bet 200 into you now making the pot 600,it costs you 200 to maybe win 600(3 to 1) so should you call? Lets for arguments sake put the player on 88... so you have 9 clubs you could hit to make your flush,3 kings and 3 aces left you could also hit to win the hand giving you 15 outs...You know of 5 cards for sure... the AK in your hand and the 3 on the flop,52 cards in a deck minus the 5 we know leaves 47 cards... you have 15(your outs) good cards out of the 47 and 32 bad cards so we divide the bad cards by the good(32/15) which gives us a little over 2 to 1 and because we are getting 3 to 1 in the pot then we are definately getting the odds to call. So to work out if you are getting the correct odds on a flop to call, subtract your outs from 47 to give you the number of bad cards and divide the bad cards by the good to give you your odds basically.