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“Outs” in poker are pretty easy to understand since they are simply the amount of cards left in the deck that can give you a made hand.  Calculating them is pretty easy too since you only really need to look at which card values or suits will give you that hand – i.e. if you are behind in a hand while holding two kings, and none are on the board then you would have two outs left. 

However, Omaha outs are a little tougher to speculate on since everyone has four hole cards instead of two.  Here is a look at different Omaha outs and how to calculate them.

Normal Outs

As explained before, outs are simply the cards that will give you a hand which is highly likely to win.  So if you have two suited card and there are two suited cards on the board, then you would have 9 outs left since there are 13 cards of every suit.

Anti-Outs

Unfortunately, there are some outs in poker which will help your opponents more than they will help you.  These are called anti-outs since they only appear to be an out for you.  A good example of this is if you had two jacks and needed one more for a set, it could actually help an opponent make a flush (if it’s of a certain suit).  So this is really an anti-out.

True Outs

After you’ve tallied up your regular outs and anti-outs, it is time to figure out your true outs.  The good news is that figuring out true outs is really easy since you only need to subtract anti-outs from your regular outs.  So, in the previous example, if you subtracted one jack of a certain suit then you would be left with one true out.