You could also argue that an Ace or a King also gives you the best hand, this would increase the number of your outs from 9 to 15 (adding A ♦ A ♣ A ♥ and K ♣ K ♦ K ♥). In this case, you have 9 outs to the flush: 3 ♠ 4 ♠ 5 ♠ 6 ♠ 8 ♠ 9 ♠ 10 ♠ J ♠ Q ♠. When we discount the two spades in your hand and two spades that are on the board, we are left nine spades in the deck.

There are 13 cards of each suit in a 52- card deck. In this situation, a spade on the turn will most likely give you the best hand. This means that you don’t have a made hand instead you are drawing to a flush. In poker, cards that can improve a player's hand are called outs.įor example, if you have A ♠ K ♠ and the board is Q ♦ 7 ♠ 2 ♠, you are essentially holding an A high flush draw. Today we are explaining everything about outs in poker, how to calculate them, and a few tips and tricks that will help you make faster calculations during hands. Learning what are poker outs and how you can use them to make good decisions during hands is one of the crucial steps to becoming a winning poker player.