Texas Hold Em Poker Tips - Using Implied Odds To Win

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  • Author Alex Poker
  • Published June 10, 2010
  • Word count 469

Bringing awareness to how to use implied odds to win more money is this Texas Hold Em Poker Tips idea.

This Texas Hold em Poker Tips aim is to bring awareness to how you can use implied odds to win more money at the poker table. Implied odds are the odds you get on winning both the pot, and an implied amount of addition to the pot, which you estimate based on the hand. By not only calculating your pot odds and payoff risk for what the pot currently is, say before or after the flop, but by calculating the odds based on a larger amount which you expect to be added, through raises or calls, you can vastly increase the overall wealth of your stack.

Good players - the experts and professionals - are extremely competent at calculating implied odds. They try to get lucky on the flop or the turn by gambling in a calculated manner. They know that if they end up hitting their card, making their out (getting the best hand possible) and winning the pot they will most likely win a much bigger pot. They gamble on hands to try to catch open or closed straights, or some other type of draw like a flush because they believe that if they do hit their card, they'll win the whole pot which will be much larger then the current. They are calculating based on the supposed pot size at the end of the hand, after the river.

You should be thinking about this as well.

If you ever watch poker, sometimes you might think to yourself "Why is this guy betting so much on such a bad hand?". It may look like a pure gamble but in fact the player has probably calculated some implied pot odds. Sure, there is a bit of luck, skill, call it an art, to guessing how much another player, or a few other players, might actually raise or add to the pot, but using estimations and rules of thumb this can be fine-tuned to be relatively accurate.

Another factor, which you should be a very good poker player to implement, to include in your calculation is the bluff factor. A player may call on the turn based on implied odds whilst including the idea that even if he doesn't pull his card and make his straight/flush/whatever, he can still bet or bluff after the river and steal the pot from his opponent. Just because he hasn't made his dream hand doesn't mean he will automatically use. By using psychological tricks, applying pressure, betting big his opponent may not be able to justify a call and will fold. using implied odds to win pots is the essence of the Texas Hold em Poker tips advice. Use it wisely.

Alex is an avid Texas Hold Em Poker player and has dedicated his time, effort and money to learning the art and skill of successfully winning rounds of No Limit Hold Em. Shoot him an email at alex@mytexasholdempokertips.com or head on over to his informative website http://MyTexasHoldemPokerTips.com and read his free newsletter containing Texas Hold Em Poker Tips

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