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In limit Texas Hold’em the Turn is the turning point in the hand. The betting limits are doubled and you have seen 86 % of your final hand. With one card to come you now have a big decision to make whether to play or fold. Many times if you call on the Turn you will also end up calling the river. Marginal hands that could be abandoned on the Turn could end up as costly hands on the River if you lose. In an unrasied pot a bet on the Turn costs you the same as the Pre-flop and the Flop bet added together.

This is the time to start looking at the pot odd to determine if it will be profitable to continue. Since the betting limits double on the turn the pot odds are now cut in half. In a 3/6 game if there were $30 in the pot you would be getting 10:1 odds on a $3 bet. Now that the bets are $6 you are only getting 5:1. You might not be getting the correct odds to stay in with a drawing hand. For example, if you get to the turn and you are trying to draw to an inside straight you only have four outs. The odds are 10.5 against you. If you are only getting 5:1 in pot odds and you should give it up.

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