pot odds

[Blakesta 0]

So I've been lurking around here reading some topics and I'm a fairly new beginer poker player. I play a lot of live tourneys, hardly at all online. I like to play some 4-8 games at my local card room sometimes, win some lose some. But on the topic of pot odds, I read somebody somewhere saying that if you hold a pair preflop, you are about 7.5-1 against flopping a set.Mathmatically that doesn't make sense to me, and I think I'm misunderstanding pot odds.Look, there's only 2 cards in the entire deck that can help you. Theres 50 unseen cards before the flop. Wouldn't the odds of you flopping a set then be 25-1? 50/2 isn't that the right figure? Somebody please help explain this. Thanks in advance.

[Guest]

with pocket pairs your actually more like 8:1 i think but with implied odds it makes it okay to call with like 5:1. and i dont think that that type of math works here... i may be wrong and maybe someone with more knowledge than me will correct this but i believe that the math is obtained using a sample of hands and recording the percentage of times that they hit. you flop a set approx 11% of the time yeilding the the 89%:11% or 8:1 odds needed to make this call a profitable play... sounds good at least maybe smash or someone will comment?

[CavemanDoctor 0]

Blakesta,Your math would be correct...if the flop were only 1 card.As you have 3 chances to hit 2 of the 50, your odds of getting a set increase from 25:1 to about 8:1.