Poker Outs Calculator (2026): Count Outs From Your Cards
Pick your hand and the board. This tool counts your outs for you, shows exactly which cards help, discounts the ones that also help your opponent, and turns that into win odds and a call or fold verdict.
Your cards
PreflopYour hand
Board
Opponent hand (optional)
Add the opponent's two cards to get clean outs against a real hand. Leave empty to count outs that improve your hand.
Pick your two hole cards to start.
How the outs calculator works
Reads your real cards
It evaluates every unseen card as the next board card, so the out count comes from the actual hand, not a guess.
Drops tainted outs
When you name the opponent, a card only counts if it leaves you ahead at showdown, so dirty outs fall away on their own.
Prices the draw
It converts outs into exact hit odds, compares them to the rule of 2 and 4, and checks them against the pot you are facing.
Outs to percentage chart (1 to 20)
The numbers every drawing hand leans on. Turn means one card to come, river means two cards to come from the flop.
| Outs | Typical draw | Turn (1 card) | By river (2 cards) | Max price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Backdoor remnant | 2.1% | 4.3% | 22.5:1 |
| 2 | Pocket pair to set | 4.3% | 8.4% | 10.9:1 |
| 3 | One overcard | 6.4% | 12.5% | 7:1 |
| 4 | Gutshot or two pair to full | 8.5% | 16.5% | 5.1:1 |
| 5 | Pair to two pair or trips | 10.6% | 20.4% | 3.9:1 |
| 6 | Two overcards | 12.8% | 24.1% | 3.1:1 |
| 7 | Set to full house or quads | 14.9% | 27.8% | 2.6:1 |
| 8 | Open-ended straight | 17.0% | 31.5% | 2.2:1 |
| 9 | Flush draw | 19.1% | 35.0% | 1.9:1 |
| 10 | Flush plus a pair card | 21.3% | 38.4% | 1.6:1 |
| 11 | Gutshot plus pair | 23.4% | 41.7% | 1.4:1 |
| 12 | Flush plus gutshot | 25.5% | 45.0% | 1.2:1 |
| 13 | Flush plus pair, more outs | 27.7% | 48.1% | 1.1:1 |
| 14 | Flush plus two pair to full | 29.8% | 51.2% | 1:1 |
| 15 | Flush plus open-ender | 31.9% | 54.1% | 0.8:1 |
| 16 | Wrap plus a pair | 34.0% | 57.0% | 0.8:1 |
| 17 | Wrap plus a flush card | 36.2% | 59.8% | 0.7:1 |
| 18 | Big double-suited wrap | 38.3% | 62.4% | 0.6:1 |
| 19 | Near-lock combo draw | 40.4% | 65.0% | 0.5:1 |
| 20 | Full wrap on the flop | 42.6% | 67.5% | 0.5:1 |
Read it as: with this many outs, you hit this often, so you can call any bet priced better than the last column.
Outs in poker: count them, clean them, and price the call
An out is any card left in the deck that turns your hand into the winner. Counting outs is the first real math skill in poker, and as of 2026 it is still the fastest way to know whether a draw is worth a chip. This guide shows how the calculator counts for you, why some outs lie to you, and how to turn the number into a call.
What an out actually is
You have a flush draw on the flop with two spades in your hand and two on the board. Nine spades are left in the deck. Each one completes your flush, so you have nine outs. That is the whole idea: count the cards that finish the hand you are chasing.
The catch is that outs are not always clean. A spade that pairs the board can hand your opponent a full house while it gives you a flush. That card looks like an out but it loses the pot. The calculator handles this for you the moment you enter the opponent's cards.
I counted outs by hand for years before I trusted a tool. The habit I never dropped: name the worst hand the opponent can have, then subtract the cards that beat me even when I hit. That single step turns a loose call into a good one.
Why outs matter more than a gut read
Outs are the bridge between your cards and a decision. They translate directly into how often you hit, and that number is the only honest way to compare the price you are paying to the reward you are chasing.
They give you a real percentage
Nine outs on the flop is about a 35% chance to make the flush by the river. That is a number you can act on, not a feeling.
They expose bad prices
If the pot is laying you 2 to 1 but your draw needs 3 to 1, the call burns chips over time. Outs make that leak visible.
They scale to every street
The same count answers two questions: hit on the very next card, and hit by the river. One number, two prices.
They train your instincts
Count outs enough times and you stop needing the calculator at the table. The tool is the trainer, not the crutch.
How the rule of 2 and 4 works
Multiply your outs by 2 to estimate your chance of hitting on the next card. Multiply by 4 to estimate your chance of hitting across the turn and the river together from the flop.
Nine outs times 4 is 36%, and the exact figure is about 35%. Close enough for a quick decision. The shortcut drifts high once you pass 8 outs, so for a big draw subtract a point or two from the times-4 number.
The calculator shows the rule estimate and the exact figure side by side, so you can see the gap instead of trusting the shortcut blind.
How to use this tool on ToolsGambling
The free outs calculator on toolsgambling.com is built to be used hand by hand. Here is the flow that gets the most out of it.
- 01
Enter your hand and the flop
Click the slots and pick your two cards and the three flop cards. The out map fills in instantly.
- 02
Read the highlighted outs
Green cards on the map are your outs, grouped by what they make. The count is your raw out total.
- 03
Name the opponent
Add the two cards you most fear. Tainted outs turn red and drop out of the clean count.
- 04
Check the true equity
The equity panel runs the exact showdown, so you see the real number behind the shortcut.
- 05
Price the call
Enter the pot and the bet. The verdict tells you whether the price beats your odds.
Common mistakes the calculator fixes
Most out-counting errors come from the same handful of habits. Each one quietly costs money.
Counting dirty outs as clean
A straight card that also completes a flush for your opponent is not an out. Naming the opponent removes it automatically.
Trusting times 4 on big draws
With 15 outs, times 4 says 60% but the real figure is closer to 54%. The exact column keeps you honest.
Forgetting you only have one card to come
Facing a turn bet, you only see the river. Use the times-2 number, not times 4, or you will overpay.
Counting outs that pair the board
A card that pairs the board can give a set or a full house. The tool checks the full showdown, not just your side.
Ignoring the price
A great draw at a bad price is still a fold. Outs only matter next to the pot odds.
Counting overcards as full outs
Two overcards are six outs in theory, but rarely six clean ones. Against a made pair, treat them as discounted.
Counting your outs step by step
Here is the routine that turns a hand into a number. It takes ten seconds once it is a habit.
- 01
Name the hand you are chasing
Decide what beats the opponent. A flush, a straight, top pair. You count outs toward that hand, not toward any improvement.
- 02
Count the cards that complete it
A flush draw has nine cards of your suit left. An open-ended straight has eight. A gutshot has four. Add overlapping draws once, never twice.
- 03
Subtract the dirty ones
Drop any card that also pairs the board into a likely full house, or completes a bigger flush for the opponent. Those are not your outs. This tool does it for you when you enter the opponent.
- 04
Turn the count into a price
Multiply by two or four for a quick read, or use the exact column, then compare it to the pot odds you are being offered.
The 13-plus outs correction
The rule of four reads high once you pass eight outs, because it double-counts the overlap between the turn and the river. For big draws there is a tidy fix.
Use (Outs times 4) minus (Outs minus 8). With 15 outs that is 60 minus 7, so 53 percent, and the exact figure is 54.1 percent. Close enough to act on, and far better than a raw 60. Under nine outs the plain rule of four is already accurate, so the correction only matters for monsters.
Outs to percentage at a glance
The shapes worth memorizing, two cards to come: four outs hit about 17 percent, eight outs about 32 percent, nine outs about 35 percent, twelve outs about 45 percent, fifteen outs about 54 percent. One card to come is roughly half of each. The full one-to-twenty chart above has the exact numbers.
Backdoor and runner-runner draws
A backdoor draw needs both the turn and the river to complete, like holding three to a flush on the flop. On its own it is worth roughly one and a half clean outs, so a backdoor flush plus a backdoor straight is about three.
This calculator counts single-card outs, the cards that win on the very next street. Backdoor equity lives in the true-equity panel, which runs the full board to the river, so a hand with extra runner-runner outs will show a slightly higher equity than its one-card out count alone suggests.
Outs in a multiway pot
Against two or three opponents your outs do not change, but their value drops. More players means more of your outs are dirty, because someone is more likely to hold the cards that beat you when you hit. A flush draw that is gold heads-up can be a trap five-handed. When you do not know the hands, leave the opponent empty and read the equity-versus-random number, then shade it down for every extra player in the pot.
Dead outs and tainted outs
A dead out is a card that is already gone, in a folded hand or burned, so it can never come. You cannot see those, so you do not subtract them. A tainted out is different: it is live, but it also hands the opponent a better hand, so it does not win. Tainted outs are the ones this tool removes once you name the opponent, which is why a raw count of twelve can become a clean count of nine.
Outs glossary
The words you will see around outs and draws, in plain language.
Core outs terms
- A card left in the deck that turns your hand into the winner.
- An out that wins the pot without also improving your opponent past you.
- A card that improves you but improves your opponent even more, so it loses anyway.
- Outs times 2 for one card to come, times 4 for two. A fast estimate of your hit chance.
- Four cards in a row needing one more on either end. Eight outs.
- A straight draw missing one card in the middle. Four outs.
- A flush draw and a straight draw at once, often 12 to 15 outs.
- A draw that needs both the turn and the river to complete. Worth about one and a half outs.
Out
Clean out
Tainted out
Rule of 2 and 4
Open-ended straight draw
Gutshot
Combo draw
Backdoor draw
On the percentages
Every figure here comes from exact card counting, not rounding. The rule of 2 and 4 is the estimate, the chart and the equity panel are the truth.
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Evgeniy Volkov
Fullstack developer with a background in mathematics. I build the calculators and game-style tools on ToolsGambling with Pixi.js and modern web tech, and every result uses transparent probability formulas you can verify yourself.
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