To illustrate, your starting cards are two spades, and the flop shows two other spades. 2 to 1 are your hand odds at making a flush, making your percentage at 50. This means that you have one chance of making a flush out of three hand plays. If your hand odds are 3 to 1 however, then your percentage is 75. You would hit your hand one out of four times.

Knowing how many outs you have can also help you calculate your hand odds. Outs are cards in the deck that help you make your poker hand. Supposing you hold an ace and a king of spades and the flop shows two other spades. Since there are only 13 cards of each suit, you have 9 cards that can be considered as outs. 9 to 1 hand odds mean a Texas Hold’em percentage of 10 – not the best though. In general, outs supposedly count towards a nut draw, but with this kind of odds and Texas Hold’em percentage, it is not possible.

Also, there’s a chance that another player is holding another spade which will decrease your outs to 8. But you do not know if a player is holding one of your outs or not, so when you calculate your Texas Hold’em percentage, you do it as if you’re the only player on board. Doing this, your Texas Hold’em percentage will depend on the idea given to you, that is your pocket cards and the cards on the table.

Next in calculating your Texas Hold’em percentage, you calculate your hand odds. Once you find out how many outs you have, you can multiply that by 4 and you will get the nearest estimate to hitting that hand from the flop. So, if you have 4 outs, then your Texas Hold’em percentage is 16% at flop. However, getting your Texas Hold’em percentage is different when you base it on the turn. Multiply your outs by 2 to get a rough estimate of your Texas Hold’em percentage. So, 4 outs times 2 is equivalent to 8% Texas Hold’em percentage.

Applying this principle when playing Texas Hold’em will help you not to lose a lot of money. Although this percentage is only an estimation, at least you have an idea how to play it to your advantage.