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Price pots fast

Five-second fraction
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Implied vs reverse
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Implied vs reverse

Implied odds: future money you can win when you hit. Reverse implied: future money you lose when you hit second-best.

Worked example

deep SPR, nut flush draw vs one opponent who pays → implied helps. Short stacks, multiway, non-nut → reverse dominates; don't 'call for implied' into a quartering board.

Common leak

always counts implied, never reverse. That's how pretty draws donate.

Practice habit

Sticky note before big draw calls: write both numbers roughly. If reverse looks bigger, fold more often.

Coaching note

Sklansky popularized implied odds and reverse implied odds as future money you win — or lose — when you hit. Use it as a check on 'Implied vs reverse', not a quote to recite.

Remember

Make 'Implied vs reverse' show up once in a real poker math hand log this week.

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