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Originally Posted by WCGRider
Example of bad reverse implied odds
You have AA UTG, and raise to 4 bb on a tight table.
No one is gonna reraise you pf, and you flop an overpair they wont put in money with worse. So you have bad implied odds.
True but not really useful, since rockets has so much pot equity you're raising from UTG anyway.
Try this:
You're in the SB with a hand like ace-little, KJ or QT. A "reasonable" player in middle position opens for 4bb. You and he both have 100bb stacks.
You really can't call.
Hands like that are called "trouble hands" exactly
because then suffer from reverse implied odds. If the flop comes with two little cards and one that gives you top pair, you've got a hand that you can't really like that much. Your top pair could easily be best, but it could just as easily be dominated by the same pair but with a better kicker, or those two little cards could have given your opponent a primary draw or set.
So if your opponent starts betting like maybe he wants to play for stacks you're going to have to give up your hand, along with all the chips you've put into the pot so far.
So just like implied odds is "How much money can I reasonably win if I hit my hand," reverse implied odds is "How much money can I reasonably
lose if I hit my hand."
Last edited by phydaux; 05-12-2008 at 07:09 PM.
Reason: clarity