THE OUTS

One thing I’ve never understood about working out the number of outs you have is that it doesn’t seem to take into account any of the cards the other players have folded. If you’ve got pocket Aces against someone who has Kings and they hit two more Kings on the flop, you’re said to have two outs. But surely if it’s a ten-handed table, the Aces have probably been spread out amongst the other eight players? How can counting your outs be an accurate way to determine your probability of winning the hand?

Unfortunately, even if you suspect certain cards have already been and gone, we must work on the premise the deck still contains 52 cards.