--- title: "Call or Fold: 5 Outs vs 3/4 pot, Turn" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/call-or-fold/5-outs-turn-vs-three-quarter-pot.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/call-or-fold/5-outs-turn-vs-three-quarter-pot" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Is a call right with 5 outs on the turn against a three-quarter-pot bet? Chance 10.87%, price 30.00%, so fold." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/call-or-fold.md"] --- # Call or Fold: 5 Outs vs 3/4 pot, Turn Is a call right with 5 outs on the turn against a three-quarter-pot bet? Chance 10.87%, price 30.00%, so fold. Facing a three-quarter-pot bet on the turn with 5 outs, the call does not pay: 10.87% to hit against 30.00% needed. - Verdict: Fold (5 outs, turn, three-quarter-pot bet) - Chance to hit by the river: 10.87% (one card to come) - Equity the call needs: 30.00% ($75 into a pot of $250) - Margin over the price: -19.13 points (your chance minus the price) ## The call in numbers The price is 30.00% and your chance is 10.87%. You sit 19.13 points below the line, which is a wide gap, so you fold. You will reach 5 outs by adding up separate draws. With 46 cards unseen, the next card helps 10.87% of the time. ## One hand, in dollars - Starting pot: $100 - Your opponent bets: $75 - You call: $75 - Final pot if you call: $250 - What a hit wins: $175 - Net loss when you miss: $75 - How often you hit: 10.87% - Average value of the call: -$47.83 - Equity needed to break even: 30.00% - Exact margin over the price: -19.1304 points - Fractional outs at the price: 13.80 outs - Margin measured in outs: -8.80 outs Price it in dollars, with no later bets: win the whole pot on a hit, lose the call on a miss. That averages $19.02 in and $66.85 out, so calling loses $47.83 on average at -0.638 per dollar called. Read as odds: 8.2 : 1 against you, 2.33 : 1 from the pot. One easy error is to use 42.86%, the bet over the pot before your call, as the price. The right price is 30.00%, and the mistaken margin would be -31.9876 points. The bet over the starting pot, 75.00%, would claim -64.1304 points. ## When later betting could rescue the call To make the call break even you would need to win another $440 after you hit, which is 5.87 times your call. Anything above that makes the call a good one. Price of a three-quarter-pot call with future winnings added, 5 outs on the turn | Future winnings | Price with them | Your chance minus price | Value of the call | Call? | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | $0 | 30.00% | -19.13 points | -$47.83 | Fold | | $50 | 25.00% | -14.13 points | -$42.39 | Fold | | $100 | 21.43% | -10.56 points | -$36.96 | Fold | | $250 | 15.00% | -4.13 points | -$20.65 | Fold | | $500 | 10.00% | +0.87 points | +$6.52 | Call | Count the outs the call needs: 14 reach the 30.00% price, giving 30.43%. You have 5, so you are 9 outs short. ## Flop and turn compared 5 outs against a three-quarter-pot bet, flop and turn | Street | Chance by the river | Margin over price | Value of the call | Verdict | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Flop, two cards to come | 20.35% | -9.6485 points | -$24.12 | Fold | | Turn, one card to come | 10.87% | -19.1304 points | -$47.83 | Fold | One street later the draw is weaker. The same 5 outs hit 20.35% from the flop and 10.87% from the turn, a drop of 9.48 points, and the verdict on the flop would have been a fold. ## Draws around this one One out can change the answer, so the table lists the counts on either side of 5. Each out adds roughly 2.17 points against the 30.00% price. Outs 3 to 7 on the turn against a three-quarter-pot bet | Outs | By the river | Margin | Verdict | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 3 outs | 6.52% | -23.48 points | Fold | | 4 outs | 8.70% | -21.30 points | Fold | | 5 outs, this page | 10.87% | -19.13 points | Fold | | 6 outs | 13.04% | -16.96 points | Fold | | 7 outs | 15.22% | -14.78 points | Fold | ## The same draw against other bet sizes Your 10.87% 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 turn. 5 outs on the turn against every bet size | Bet size | Equity needed | Margin | Verdict | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | quarter-pot | 16.67% | -5.80 points | Fold | | third-pot | 20.00% | -9.13 points | Fold | | two-fifths-pot | 22.22% | -11.35 points | Fold | | half-pot | 25.00% | -14.13 points | Fold | | [two-thirds-pot](https://georgelipoker.com/call-or-fold/5-outs-turn-vs-two-thirds-pot.md) | 28.57% | -17.70 points | Fold | | three-quarter-pot, this page | 30.00% | -19.13 points | Fold | | pot-size | 33.33% | -22.46 points | Fold | | 1.25x-pot | 35.71% | -24.84 points | Fold | | 1.5x-pot | 37.50% | -26.63 points | Fold | | 2x-pot | 40.00% | -29.13 points | Fold | | 3x-pot | 42.86% | -31.99 points | Fold | | 4x-pot | 44.44% | -33.57 points | Fold | With 10.87% to hit, you can call a bet up to 0.14 times the pot ($13.89 on a $100 pot) and no more, which is smaller than every size listed. All 12 rows are folds. ## Where to look next - [5 outs on the turn](https://georgelipoker.com/outs/5-outs-turn.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 5 outs on the turn worth a call against a bet of three quarters of the pot? Compare 10.87%, your chance to hit by the river, with 30.00%, the equity a three-quarter-pot bet needs. The gap is -19.13 points, so this is a fold. In dollars on a $100 pot, the call averages -$47.83 when no more betting follows. ### How strong must a draw be to call a three-quarter-pot bet on the turn? Against 30.00%, the first count that works on the turn is 14, at 30.43%. At 13 the chance is 28.26%, too low. Compared with that threshold, your 5 outs are 9 below. ### How many cards should you count when a three-quarter-pot bet arrives on the turn? One card left means one chance: 10.87%. Set it beside the 30.00% price and you get -19.13 points, which is a fold. There is no second figure to weigh against it. ## How this is computed Everything is computed from the closed form. The river chance is 5 outs over 46 unseen cards, 10.87%. Four assumptions sit behind the verdict: you call the full bet, a hit wins the entire pot, no money goes in after the call, and every one of the 46 unseen cards is equally likely. The price is $75 / $250 = 30.00%. No card is taken out for what an opponent might hold. Computed from the closed form by the GeorgeLiPoker math library. ## Related pages - [5 outs on the turn](https://georgelipoker.com/outs/5-outs-turn.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)