I was playing a 1=2 NL game with about $60 left of my original $100. I had 6-7 spades and there were 6 players in the hand, I was 4th to act and limped in, no pre-flop raise. The flop comes 9-hearts, 10-hearts, 4-spades. The small blind and big blind check, I check. The guy after me moves all in for $30, then th person after him moves all in for $50. There were then another caller and the small and big blind both called all in. I had 5 players ahead of me all in and no one behind me, with just a gut shot striaght. I figured at this point there was over $250 in the pot and I was not sure if this is getting good odds (obviously there great odds but is this worth it for a gut shot?). Anyways I don't know why cause I never would but I called because I was leaving soon, and the 8 hit on the turn and I won over $300 with the straight. Is this considered a good call for pot odds or no? I left the table after the hand because of the 3 sets I had beat and pocket kings and busted flush draw that were mad at me, but is this a correct call or no?
thanks for the help, i am a relatively new poker player and pot odds are the thing I am still unsure about, thanks
chris

why is no one answer me?
is it really that stupid of a question?

Originally Posted by KRE8R

You should run it through Pokerstove.

i'm sure he has no idea what pokerstove is, nor is it really all that relevant to this particular hand.

here is the way to analyze this: the 8 is the only card that will make you the best hand (and this isn't really even a given, someone could easily have QJ) and there are 4 eights left in the deck. there are 5 known cards (your hand and the flop) so that means there are 47 unknown cards left in the deck. 4 of them are eights, so you have a 4/47 chance of making the best hand on the turn and a 4/47 chance of making the best hand on the river. so you have an approximately 5 to 1 shot of hitting your straight by the river.

that means that for a call to be profitable, you need to be getting at least 5:1 pot odds. it's a little unclear from your post how much you needed to call to be all in (did your stack cover that of the other players before the hand?) but it seems like you're getting about 250:60, which is only a little over 4:1 pot odds.

throw in the fact that you can make your hand and still lose(QJ as mentioned before, or if you turn a straight and someone else's flopped set boats up on the river) and it's a pretty easy fold.