--- title: "Call or Fold: 1 Out vs 3/4 pot, Flop" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/call-or-fold/1-outs-flop-vs-three-quarter-pot.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/call-or-fold/1-outs-flop-vs-three-quarter-pot" last_updated: "2026-10-21" type: "reference" summary: "A three-quarter-pot bet asks for 30.00% and 1 out on the flop gives 4.26%, a margin of -25.74 points and a fold." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/call-or-fold.md"] --- # Call or Fold: 1 Out vs 3/4 pot, Flop A three-quarter-pot bet asks for 30.00% and 1 out on the flop gives 4.26%, a margin of -25.74 points and a fold. On the flop, 1 out is not enough to call a three-quarter-pot bet. The price is 30.00% and the chance is 4.26%. - Verdict: Fold (1 out, flop, three-quarter-pot bet) - Chance to hit by the river: 4.26% (two cards to come) - Equity the call needs: 30.00% ($75 into a pot of $250) - Margin over the price: -25.74 points (your chance minus the price) ## Reading the verdict The price is 30.00% and your chance is 4.26%. You sit 25.74 points below the line, which is a wide gap, so you fold. One out is a single card that improves you. Of the 47 unseen cards on the flop, one helps, which is 2.13% on the very next card. ## The arithmetic of this call - Pot when the bet arrives: $100 - The bet: $75 - Cost to call: $75 - Total pot after calling: $250 - Net gain when you hit: $175 - Loss on a miss: $75 - How often you hit: 4.26% - Expected value of calling: -$64.36 - Equity needed to break even: 30.00% - Exact margin over the price: -25.7447 points - Outs at break-even: 7.59 outs - Outs above the price: -6.59 outs Over many identical spots, with the whole pot won on every hit, the call lost on every miss and no extra betting, calling loses $64.36 on average. Hits bring in $7.45, misses cost $71.81, and the ratio is -0.858 per dollar called. In odds, you face 22.5 : 1 against you and the pot pays 2.33 : 1. A common slip is to divide the bet by the pot after the bet but before your call. That gives 42.86% instead of 30.00% and would put your margin at -38.6018 points. Using the bet over the starting pot, 75.00%, is further off and would put it at -70.7447 points. ## The extra winnings a call would need Break-even needs $1,512.50 of future winnings on top of the $250 already in the pot, which is 20.17 times the cost of your call. Price of a three-quarter-pot call with future winnings added, 1 out on the flop | Future winnings | Price with them | Your chance minus price | Value of the call | Call? | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | $0 | 30.00% | -25.74 points | -$64.36 | Fold | | $50 | 25.00% | -20.74 points | -$62.23 | Fold | | $100 | 21.43% | -17.17 points | -$60.11 | Fold | | $250 | 15.00% | -10.74 points | -$53.72 | Fold | | $500 | 10.00% | -5.74 points | -$43.09 | Fold | Reaching 30.00% takes 8 outs on the flop, which hit 31.45%. With 1, the distance is 7 outs. ## Next card or river 1 out against a three-quarter-pot bet, one view per row | Cards counted | Chance | Margin over price | Value of the call | Verdict | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | By the river, two cards | 4.26% | -25.7447 points | -$64.36 | Fold | | Next card only | 2.13% | -27.8723 points | -$69.68 | Fold | Both views point the same way. By the river you hit 4.26%, on the next card 2.13%, and the price is 30.00%, so the fold holds whichever number applies. ## Counts close to yours Add a few outs and watch the verdict. Every out is worth about 4.16 points on the flop, and the price stays at 30.00%. Outs 1 to 5 on the flop against a three-quarter-pot bet | Outs | By the river | Margin | Verdict | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 out, this page | 4.26% | -25.74 points | Fold | | [2 outs](https://georgelipoker.com/call-or-fold/2-outs-flop-vs-three-quarter-pot.md) | 8.42% | -21.58 points | Fold | | [3 outs](https://georgelipoker.com/call-or-fold/3-outs-flop-vs-three-quarter-pot.md) | 12.49% | -17.51 points | Fold | | [4 outs](https://georgelipoker.com/call-or-fold/4-outs-flop-vs-three-quarter-pot.md) | 16.47% | -13.53 points | Fold | | [5 outs](https://georgelipoker.com/call-or-fold/5-outs-flop-vs-three-quarter-pot.md) | 20.35% | -9.65 points | Fold | ## The same draw against other bet sizes Your 4.26% chance is fixed, so the only thing that moves is the price. The 12 rows below price the call at every bet size on the flop. 1 out on the flop against every bet size | Bet size | Equity needed | Margin | Verdict | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | quarter-pot | 16.67% | -12.41 points | Fold | | [third-pot](https://georgelipoker.com/call-or-fold/1-outs-flop-vs-third-pot.md) | 20.00% | -15.74 points | Fold | | two-fifths-pot | 22.22% | -17.97 points | Fold | | [half-pot](https://georgelipoker.com/call-or-fold/1-outs-flop-vs-half-pot.md) | 25.00% | -20.74 points | Fold | | [two-thirds-pot](https://georgelipoker.com/call-or-fold/1-outs-flop-vs-two-thirds-pot.md) | 28.57% | -24.32 points | Fold | | three-quarter-pot, this page | 30.00% | -25.74 points | Fold | | [pot-size](https://georgelipoker.com/call-or-fold/1-outs-flop-vs-pot-size.md) | 33.33% | -29.08 points | Fold | | 1.25x-pot | 35.71% | -31.46 points | Fold | | 1.5x-pot | 37.50% | -33.24 points | Fold | | 2x-pot | 40.00% | -35.74 points | Fold | | 3x-pot | 42.86% | -38.60 points | Fold | | 4x-pot | 44.44% | -40.19 points | Fold | With 4.26% to hit, you can call a bet up to 0.05 times the pot ($4.65 on a $100 pot) and no more, which is smaller than every size listed. All 12 rows are folds. ## Related math - [1 out on the flop](https://georgelipoker.com/outs/1-outs-flop.md) - [Pot odds for a three-quarter-pot bet](https://georgelipoker.com/pot-odds/three-quarter-pot.md) - [Pot odds calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/pot-odds-calculator.md) - [Outs calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/outs-calculator.md) - [Call or fold with a draw](https://georgelipoker.com/call-or-fold.md) ## Questions ### What is the right play with 1 out when a three-quarter-pot bet comes on the flop? Compare 4.26%, your chance to hit by the river, with 30.00%, the equity a three-quarter-pot bet needs. The gap is -25.74 points, so this is a fold. In dollars on a $100 pot, the call averages -$64.36 when no more betting follows. ### What count of outs clears the price of a three-quarter-pot bet on the flop? Against 30.00%, the first count that works on the flop is 8, at 31.45%. At 7 the chance is 27.84%, too low. Compared with that threshold, your 1 out is 7 below. ### Should you use the chance on the next card or by the river? It depends on what follows, but here it does not matter. If the hand ends here, count both cards: 4.26%. If another bet is coming on the turn, count one card: 2.13%. Against 30.00%, both say fold. ## How this is computed Everything is computed from the closed form. Pairs without an out: 1,035 of 1,081. The rest, 4.26%, hold at least one out. Read the verdict with its limits in mind. The call is the full bet, so the break-even equity is $75 / $250 = 30.00%. A hit takes the whole pot, no later betting happens, and the 47 unseen cards are all equally likely, with none removed for an opponent's cards. Computed from the closed form by the GeorgeLiPoker math library. ## Related pages - [1 out on the flop](https://georgelipoker.com/outs/1-outs-flop.md) - [Pot odds for a three-quarter-pot bet](https://georgelipoker.com/pot-odds/three-quarter-pot.md) - [Pot odds calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/pot-odds-calculator.md) - [Outs calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/outs-calculator.md) - [Call or fold with a draw](https://georgelipoker.com/call-or-fold.md) ## Related - [Call or Fold With a Draw by Bet Size](https://georgelipoker.com/call-or-fold.md)