Are pot odds at all useful in online poker?

[ZCT]

Pot odds are essential in poker. But if you are playing some kind of children's poker on MySpace, then don't expect a real game.

The poker I've seen on MySpace or Facebook is not real poker at all. I've no idea why anyone would play it, when you can go on a real site and play for free.

But pot odds, when compared with your drawing outs, will tell you if it is mathematically correct to call a bet. If you don't keep a track of your outs, relative to your bet size, then you are asking for trouble, and you are going to consistently be making the wrong play mathematically. If you are going to be another player on the site, don't be another fish.