--- title: "Call or Fold: 20 Outs vs 3/4 pot, Flop" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/call-or-fold/20-outs-flop-vs-three-quarter-pot.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/call-or-fold/20-outs-flop-vs-three-quarter-pot" last_updated: "2026-10-21" type: "reference" summary: "A three-quarter-pot bet asks for 30.00% and 20 outs on the flop give 67.53%, a margin of +37.53 points and a call." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/call-or-fold.md"] --- # Call or Fold: 20 Outs vs 3/4 pot, Flop A three-quarter-pot bet asks for 30.00% and 20 outs on the flop give 67.53%, a margin of +37.53 points and a call. Call. With 20 outs on the flop, your 67.53% chance beats the 30.00% price of a three-quarter-pot bet. - Verdict: Call (20 outs, flop, three-quarter-pot bet) - Chance to hit by the river: 67.53% (two cards to come) - Equity the call needs: 30.00% ($75 into a pot of $250) - Margin over the price: +37.53 points (your chance minus the price) ## Reading the verdict The price is 30.00% and your chance is 67.53%. You sit 37.53 points above the line, which is a wide gap, so you call. No single everyday draw has exactly 20 outs, so a count like this usually combines draws. One card from the 47 unseen helps 42.55% of the time. ## A $100 pot, step by step - Pot when the bet arrives: $100 - Your opponent bets: $75 - You call: $75 - Total pot after calling: $250 - Net gain when you hit: $175 - What a miss costs: $75 - Chance to hit by the river: 67.53% - Calling is worth, on average: +$93.83 - Equity needed to break even: 30.00% - Unrounded margin: +37.5301 points - Fractional outs at the price: 7.59 outs - Margin measured in outs: +12.41 outs Price it in dollars, with no later bets: win the whole pot on a hit, lose the call on a miss. That averages $118.18 in and $24.35 out, so calling gains $93.83 on average at +1.251 per dollar called. Written as odds, the pot lays 2.33 : 1 while the draw is 0.48 : 1 against. The correct pot to divide by includes your call. Without it the price reads 42.86% rather than 30.00%, and the margin reads +24.6729 points. With the starting pot alone it reads 75.00% and -7.4699 points. ## Your cushion over the price If some outs turned out to be shared with a better hand, you could give up 12 outs and still call. The floor is 8, at 31.45%. Price of a three-quarter-pot call if you give money back after a hit, 20 outs on the flop | Given back later | Price with it | Your chance minus price | Value of the call | Call? | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | $0 | 30.00% | +37.53 points | +$93.83 | Call | | $10 | 31.25% | +36.28 points | +$87.07 | Call | | $25 | 33.33% | +34.20 points | +$76.94 | Call | | $50 | 37.50% | +30.03 points | +$60.06 | Call | | $100 | 50.00% | +17.53 points | +$26.30 | Call | After a hit you could give back up to $138.94 on later streets, 1.85 times your call, before the call stops paying. ## Which chance to use 20 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 | 67.53% | +37.5301 points | +$93.83 | Call | | Next card only | 42.55% | +12.5532 points | +$31.38 | Call | You can skip the usual debate over one card versus two, because 42.55% and 67.53% both give a call against 30.00%. ## How the answer moves with outs Here are the closest counts to 20 outs, priced against the same 30.00%. One fewer out moves your chance by about 2.50 points. Outs 16 to 20 on the flop against a three-quarter-pot bet | Outs | By the river | Margin | Verdict | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [16 outs](https://georgelipoker.com/call-or-fold/16-outs-flop-vs-three-quarter-pot.md) | 56.98% | +26.98 points | Call | | [17 outs](https://georgelipoker.com/call-or-fold/17-outs-flop-vs-three-quarter-pot.md) | 59.76% | +29.76 points | Call | | [18 outs](https://georgelipoker.com/call-or-fold/18-outs-flop-vs-three-quarter-pot.md) | 62.44% | +32.44 points | Call | | [19 outs](https://georgelipoker.com/call-or-fold/19-outs-flop-vs-three-quarter-pot.md) | 65.03% | +35.03 points | Call | | 20 outs, this page | 67.53% | +37.53 points | Call | ## How bet size moves the answer Your 67.53% 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. 20 outs on the flop against every bet size | Bet size | Equity needed | Margin | Verdict | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | quarter-pot | 16.67% | +50.86 points | Call | | [third-pot](https://georgelipoker.com/call-or-fold/20-outs-flop-vs-third-pot.md) | 20.00% | +47.53 points | Call | | two-fifths-pot | 22.22% | +45.31 points | Call | | [half-pot](https://georgelipoker.com/call-or-fold/20-outs-flop-vs-half-pot.md) | 25.00% | +42.53 points | Call | | [two-thirds-pot](https://georgelipoker.com/call-or-fold/20-outs-flop-vs-two-thirds-pot.md) | 28.57% | +38.96 points | Call | | three-quarter-pot, this page | 30.00% | +37.53 points | Call | | [pot-size](https://georgelipoker.com/call-or-fold/20-outs-flop-vs-pot-size.md) | 33.33% | +34.20 points | Call | | 1.25x-pot | 35.71% | +31.82 points | Call | | 1.5x-pot | 37.50% | +30.03 points | Call | | 2x-pot | 40.00% | +27.53 points | Call | | 3x-pot | 42.86% | +24.67 points | Call | | 4x-pot | 44.44% | +23.09 points | Call | The call holds at every one of the 12 sizes. 67.53% is higher than the price of even the largest bet. ## Keep exploring - [20 outs on the flop](https://georgelipoker.com/outs/20-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 ### Are 20 outs on the flop worth a call against a bet of three quarters of the pot? Verdict: call. A three-quarter-pot bet asks for 30.00% and you have 67.53%, a margin of +37.53 points. For a $75 call into a $100 pot, with no later bets and the whole pot won on a hit, the average is +$93.83. ### How many outs make a call correct against three quarters of the pot on the flop? The threshold is 8 outs. It gives 31.45%, clearing 30.00%, whereas 7 gives only 27.84%. Holding 20 puts you 12 above it, with a chance of 67.53%. ### How many cards should you count when a three-quarter-pot bet arrives on the flop? Match the number to the betting: 67.53% if all-in or checked down, 42.55% if you face another bet on the turn. The price is 30.00%, and both numbers agree on call. ## How this is computed Counting is exact: the pairs of unseen cards with no out number 351 out of 1,081, so hitting by the river has chance 67.53%. 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 - [20 outs on the flop](https://georgelipoker.com/outs/20-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)