--- title: "Call or Fold: 2 Outs vs 3/4 pot, Flop" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/call-or-fold/2-outs-flop-vs-three-quarter-pot.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/call-or-fold/2-outs-flop-vs-three-quarter-pot" last_updated: "2026-10-21" type: "reference" summary: "Flop spot, 2 outs, three-quarter-pot bet: you hit 8.42% by the river against 30.00% needed. Verdict: fold." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/call-or-fold.md"] --- # Call or Fold: 2 Outs vs 3/4 pot, Flop Flop spot, 2 outs, three-quarter-pot bet: you hit 8.42% by the river against 30.00% needed. Verdict: fold. Facing a three-quarter-pot bet on the flop with 2 outs, the call does not pay: 8.42% to hit against 30.00% needed. - Verdict: Fold (2 outs, flop, three-quarter-pot bet) - Chance to hit by the river: 8.42% (two cards to come) - Equity the call needs: 30.00% ($75 into a pot of $250) - Margin over the price: -21.58 points (your chance minus the price) ## The call in numbers This is one of the easier spots. 2 outs on the flop reach 8.42% by the river, the three-quarter-pot bet asks for 30.00%, and the 21.58-point gap favors folding. Count a pocket pair that wants a set and you land on 2 outs. With 47 cards unseen, the next card helps 4.26% of the time. ## The same spot in dollars - Pot before the bet: $100 - Size of the bet: $75 - Chips you put in: $75 - Pot after your call: $250 - Gain on a hit: $175 - Loss on a miss: $75 - Chance to hit by the river: 8.42% - Calling is worth, on average: -$53.95 - Break-even equity: 30.00% - Your chance minus the price, unrounded: -21.5819 points - Outs at break-even: 7.59 outs - Outs to spare, exactly: -5.59 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 $53.95 on average. Hits bring in $14.73, misses cost $68.69, and the ratio is -0.719 per dollar called. As odds, 10.88 : 1 against hitting meets pot odds of 2.33 : 1. The correct pot to divide by includes your call. Without it the price reads 42.86% rather than 30.00%, and the margin reads -34.4390 points. With the starting pot alone it reads 75.00% and -66.5819 points. ## What it would take to call To make the call break even you would need to win another $640.93 after you hit, which is 8.55 times your call. Anything above that makes the call a good one. Price of a three-quarter-pot call with future winnings added, 2 outs on the flop | Future winnings | Price with them | Your chance minus price | Value of the call | Call? | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | $0 | 30.00% | -21.58 points | -$53.95 | Fold | | $50 | 25.00% | -16.58 points | -$49.75 | Fold | | $100 | 21.43% | -13.01 points | -$45.54 | Fold | | $250 | 15.00% | -6.58 points | -$32.91 | Fold | | $500 | 10.00% | -1.58 points | -$11.86 | Fold | Reaching 30.00% takes 8 outs on the flop, which hit 31.45%. With 2, the distance is 6 outs. ## Next card or river 2 outs 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 | 8.42% | -21.5819 points | -$53.95 | Fold | | Next card only | 4.26% | -25.7447 points | -$64.36 | Fold | No conflict here: 8.42% for two cards and 4.26% for one both give a fold against the 30.00% price, so you need not decide which view applies. ## Draws around this one Move up or down a few outs and watch the verdict. Every extra out is worth about 4.07 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](https://georgelipoker.com/call-or-fold/1-outs-flop-vs-three-quarter-pot.md) | 4.26% | -25.74 points | Fold | | 2 outs, this page | 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 draw across every bet size Bet size sets the price, so the verdict changes as you scan the table. The three-quarter-pot bet of this page is marked in the first column. 2 outs on the flop against every bet size | Bet size | Equity needed | Margin | Verdict | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | quarter-pot | 16.67% | -8.25 points | Fold | | [third-pot](https://georgelipoker.com/call-or-fold/2-outs-flop-vs-third-pot.md) | 20.00% | -11.58 points | Fold | | two-fifths-pot | 22.22% | -13.80 points | Fold | | [half-pot](https://georgelipoker.com/call-or-fold/2-outs-flop-vs-half-pot.md) | 25.00% | -16.58 points | Fold | | [two-thirds-pot](https://georgelipoker.com/call-or-fold/2-outs-flop-vs-two-thirds-pot.md) | 28.57% | -20.15 points | Fold | | three-quarter-pot, this page | 30.00% | -21.58 points | Fold | | [pot-size](https://georgelipoker.com/call-or-fold/2-outs-flop-vs-pot-size.md) | 33.33% | -24.92 points | Fold | | 1.25x-pot | 35.71% | -27.30 points | Fold | | 1.5x-pot | 37.50% | -29.08 points | Fold | | 2x-pot | 40.00% | -31.58 points | Fold | | 3x-pot | 42.86% | -34.44 points | Fold | | 4x-pot | 44.44% | -36.03 points | Fold | With 8.42% to hit, you can call a bet up to 0.10 times the pot ($10.12 on a $100 pot) and no more, which is smaller than every size listed. All 12 rows are folds. ## Where to look next - [2 outs on the flop](https://georgelipoker.com/outs/2-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 does the math say about calling a bet of three quarters of the pot with 2 outs on the flop? The verdict is fold. Your chance is 8.42% and the price is 30.00%, which leaves -21.58 points. On a $100 pot with a $75 bet, calling is worth -$53.95 on average if the whole pot is won on a hit and nothing more is bet. ### What is the minimum number of outs for a three-quarter-pot bet on the flop? Look for 8 outs. That is the smallest count whose chance, 31.45%, reaches the 30.00% price; 7 manages 27.84%. You have 2, so you are 6 behind the minimum. ### Does it matter whether you count one card or two against a three-quarter-pot bet? Use the by-the-river chance, 8.42%, when no more betting follows, and the next-card chance, 4.26%, when you must pay again on the turn. Against the 30.00% price both give a fold, so the choice does not change the play here. ## How this is computed Here is how 8.42% was found. Deal every pair of the 47 unseen cards: 990 of 1,081 pairs contain no out. The price is call / (pot + bet + call), here $75 / $250 = 30.00%, and the margin is your chance minus it. The page assumes you call the whole bet, win the whole pot whenever you hit, and see no more betting. All 47 unseen cards are equally likely and none is removed for an opponent's hand, so this is the chance to hit your outs, not your equity against one hand. Computed from the closed form by the GeorgeLiPoker math library. ## Related pages - [2 outs on the flop](https://georgelipoker.com/outs/2-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)