Poker Library > Pro Tip #128: Implied Odds Part 2

[Las Vegas and Poker News & Articles - Articles] If your play in a hand looks obvious, it probably is, which means the implied odds you thought you had after the flop probably never even existed in the first place. In a practical sense, this means that you should factor your opponent’s style into your equation when you’re thinking about your implied odds in a hand.

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[Online Poker Forum at Full Tilt Poker] No Limit/Pot Limit Strategy Discussion :: RE: 25NL 6max line check: Anything he called you on the flop with now has you beat and probably has some sort of straight draw to go with it, and thus is unlikely to fold. As played I might raise the river if I know the villain won't play an A like this, and sucks at handreading, but readless at 25NL I think it's very possible he has an A and isn't letting it go.

[Everything Has A Limit] Irrationality: I'm juggling with the idea of reducing my bet size on the flop with a view to taking it down on the turn more often. I've discovered that I make more when I get called pre-flop than I do when I am not called (yes, one would expect this, I know), so, quite possibly, I'll make more if I am called on the flop than if I elicit a fold from my continuation bet.

[btimm's Poker Blog] I Like Sweats!!: The point of this comment is that I made some hands and got paid sure, but a lot of these profits were coming from hands where I just need to get more value.  I lost 3 BIs on these 4 hands and still ended the day up 6.5 BIs.  This tells me one very important thing.  Overall, my ideas of how to play poker are solid.  However, I need to get as much value as I possibly can from weaker players who will call much much lighter.  I need to let aggressive players be aggressive and bluff me more like the AQ hand above, where normally I would have raised to charge draws.  That would be bad, as he will get it in on the turn when he misses, my equity is better, and I don’t fold him out.  Basically my purpose of bringing those hands up is to say that many of my mediocre days can be much better if I get more value from my hands, which is really the reason for my less than stellar results. 

[Poker Penguin - Poker Strategy, News, Hands, Rules, Tips, Odds and Bluffs Blog] Good night at the casino: But still, I want him to stick around to the river, so I slow WAY down to give him a chance to catch some kind of backdoor draw and because of that, I only ended up taking down a smallish pot with trip Aces. I never been so sad winning with AA before.

[Etherized Upon a (Poker) Table] WSOP Main Event - Day 1: In retrospect I could have just shipped the turn since I’m almost never folding to a river bet and my shove will possibly still get paid off by QJ.  Still, bottom set on a relatively dry board in a multiway limped pot with 100BB stacks in the $10,000 buy-in main event vs. another online qualifier is pretty close to the worst hand I’d expect him to call a shove with, so shoving won’t get max value from worse hands (The only worse hands I’d expect to get called by are QJ and maybe a few turned combo draws like AQss or KTss —

[Gambling WebLog] Poker bad beat: Before the flop, Alice raises to 15 times the big blind, placing a fifth of her stack in the pot, and only Bob calls. The flop comes

[nightowlpoker Poker Blog] An Odds Sort Of Guy: I think a basic knowledge of the odds will always go towards setting the foundation of a winning game. I think it is so important to be aware of the possibilites of what your opponent can have, and a knowledge of the odds will enable you to make a better judgement on the possibilities.

[pokersharkpool.com] Quiz 2: I don’t even care if he has pocket aces because a raise helps me to define their hand and what flops may have hit them while they have no idea as to the content of my hand. Re-raising sets you up to be re-raised all in and you could have a dominated hand or a hand that is just a marginal favourite (against A-K for instance) and you really have no call.

[HoldemForaLiving.com: Strategy for Heads Up Play, Community for All] Live Session Results: +$500; On to HUSNG Session: As I’ve discussed before, ONE PAIR usually does not take down pots of this size, so value betting the river would go against that belief, which is usually right more often than it’s not. Having said that,  I checked behind everyone, and took it down - as both guys held a queen.

[pokersharkpool.com] Quiz 4: If he calls with a set then I am a big favourite as he only has ten outs with one card to come and a raise also gets rid of the loose aggressive player in Seat 1 who I could still lose this pot to. I raised all in and the player in Seat 1 folded with the player in Seat 3 calling in an instant.

[akqj10's Tunica Poker Blog] B&M Lesson #2: My $10 call was a bad play because I was actually drawing to 3 outs, and that’s pretty typical here.   Stacks aren’t deep enough to pay me better than about 30:1 even if I do spike my miracle card on the turn, and catching a 3 to make treys full isn’t going to give me good implied odds either because of the likelihood of an overboat.  And even my miracle card could have been dead, given the extreme likelihood of one or possibly two other flushes out against me.

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