Let’s say you’re holding 73 of hearts in position against five other poker onlineplayers. You’re getting 5 to 1 on your money, is it correct to call? Well, think through it logically. If you flush, you could be looking to lose to a much bigger flush. If you catch two pair, you could lose to another two poker online pair. Now the chances of this happening in a one person pot are small, but it’s just logical that with more people in a pot there are more ways to lose. Instead of getting positive implied odds, you’re really not sure of your odds, since any of the five unknowns could show up with something that beats your hand. So why call when there are so many online poker players in a pot even if you’re getting correct odds to flop to four to the flush to call with such a weak hand. This is an example of using poker math wrongly. In this instance it was pot odds that were incorrectly overvalued. Another example is when a player overestimates his odds. Say AK loses to AQ when a Queen hits. The player may say he was a 45:3 favorite, when in reality he was only a 3.1:1 favorite or a 2.3:1 favorite depending on the if the AQ was suited. People tend to forget that flush and straight draws as well as trips and two pair can happen with hands like AQ or AJ against AK. So the next time you get beat by what you thought was a 3 outer with AK and you say he was drawing to 3 outs, remember that there were other ways you could have gotten beat.