Pot odds
The ratio between the money already in the pot and the amount a player must pay to call in order to keep playing.
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With 100 in the middle and an opponent betting 10, the pot stands at 110 and the call costs 10, so the pot is laying odds of 11-to-1. The comparison is the calling standard: a call is correct when the chance that the hand is best exceeds those odds, and equally correct on a draw when the odds of making a better hand are greater than the odds the pot offers. The same calculation therefore governs both made hands and drawing hands.
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