Draw odds

Gutshot straight draw odds: four outs

A gutshot is a straight with a hole in the middle. One rank fills it. That is four cards, and it misses far more often than it hits.

• 4outs on the flop
• 8.5%to hit on the turn
• 16.5%by the river, if you see both

Count the outs

When the ten comes here, nobody can beat your straight. That is the one good thing about this draw.

The odds on each card

Exact odds count 47 unseen cards on the flop and 46 on the turn.

Which bets you can call

With one card to come, a gutshot covers a bet of up to about 10% of the pot. That is a very small bet. Against anything bigger, a lone gutshot is a fold by the price.

Three things can change that:

• Money you will win after you hit. Your straight is hidden, so sometimes he pays.
• More outs. A gutshot with a flush draw has 12. Two gutshots at once have 8.
• A bet you can make instead of a call. That is a different question from the price.

Against top pair

Against J♠Q♦, every turn and river dealt, the gutshot wins 20.3%. Some of that is runouts where you pair twice. It is still a hand that loses four times in five.

Do not mix it up with a double gutshot, which has twice the outs.

Other draws

• Flush draw
• Open-ended straight draw
• Two overcards
• Straight flush draw
• Double gutshot
• Backdoor flush draw
• Set mining
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