An out is a card that will improve your hand.

Example: you have Ac 5c.

Flop: 2h 3d Ks

Giving you an inside straight draw and an overcard. This means you have 7 outs. there are 4 fours left in the deck that give you a straight and 3 aces that give you top pair

You can’t count these as full outs though because sometimes you will catch a 4 and someone will have a 5-6(there are three 5’s and four 6’s left in the deck which means there are a total of twelve [3x4] combinations of 5-4] Someone else might also have a bigger ace so an ace might not be a winning card for you either.

Because of this fact, you have to discount your outs. Perhaps we will count the three aces as 1.5 and the straight outs as 3 meaning you have 4.5 outs.

Why does this matter? Well if you have a flush draw you have 9 outs to complete your flush. An open ended straight draw will give you 8 outs, but its...

Many people think machines at Casinos are rigged. They are not, only the payouts are rigged in their favor. Here’s an example of how they keep the lights on:

Let’s say you go to Vegas With $100 in your pocket and you want to play roulette.

You want to put that money on your “lucky” number 00, assuming that double zero is your “lucky” number, which it might not be.

What are your odds of winning?

A roulette wheel in the United States of America contains 37 real numbers (0-36) and one imaginary number(00) Okay this is not the actual definition of an imaginary number, but Double zero exists nowhere else outside of a casino.

If you could somehow make this $100 bet on 13 over a large number of times(let’s say one million times) you can expect to win the bet 1 time for every 37 times you lose.

You only have $100 though so this is all you can lose. If the ball falls on 00 the...