I just made some adjustments to my newsletter over at texasholdempoker101.com and instead of sending out a weekly newsletter, I made all my tips into an ebook that you can get for free if you sign-up.

It’s 70-pages of awesome poker stuff, go get it now.

That’s right, I just reviewed it and I liked it. In short, it’s worth getting if you don’t know what equity is or how you can use meta-game to manipulate your opponent to clean your bathroom

Read my whole review on my website: How to Beat No-Limit Hold’em 6-max Cash Games Review

It’s been a long time, haven’t had the urge to blog lately. I haven’t been doing much, going to aikido and jujutsu. Basically doing the same old stuff, I’ve also been working on a website of mine, I don’t know why but I really like playing with websites.

It’s almost like The Sims but in real life where the website is the theme park, wee. I am not entirely satisfied with my poker website (texasholdempoker101.com). It’s about 1½ years since I first put it up and my lack of writing skills really shine through. Live and learn I guess.

I started trying the Sedona Method and having some interesting results so far with it. It’s basically a “method” of releasing emotions which comes in handy at the poker table for me. I’ve been able to stay tiltless longer, so the results so far are promising. I’ll let you guys know if I still like it after a month.

A quick guest post on implied odds.

Introduction to Implied Odds

Part of the skill in poker is about understanding the odds. The great poker players know all the math required to calculate whether someone is getting an edge.

Pot odds are crucial for this calculation, but it is not the end of the story. There are also implied odds that players must consider.

Pot Odds vs. Implied Odds

Pot odds are the most basic calculation in poker. They represent your payout odds. If there is $50 in the pot and you need to call $5 to get to a showdown, you are risking $5 to win $50, or $10 for every $1 you bet, or 10-to-1.

If your odds of winning are shorter than 10-to-1, this bet has positive expected value over the long term. If they are longer, it has negative expected value. Implied odds enhance this equation by including money not yet in the pot.

True Odds in Poker

When you use pot odds, you are comparing them to your real odds of winning the hand – something that any basic online poker pot odds calculator can do for you. The real odds calculate by determining the number of cards that can come to make you the winner vs. the number of cards that will give the pot to your opponent. In order to continue, these odds need to be better than the pot odds, plus the implied odds.

Implied Odds in Practice

Players on a draw frequently consider online Texas holdem odds. For example, if you hold Kc 9c and the board is 6c Ac 4d Js, you will probably need to hit your flush to win.

If there is $200 in the pot and your opponent bets $100, you have 3-to-1 pot odds. His bet makes it a $300 pot and it costs you $100 to call. You have nine outs to win the pot and 37 cards that don’t help you. 37-to-9 is about 4-to-1, which makes this a fold, unless considering implied odds.

Implied odds take into account money you might win on later streets. Let’s say you should call and a club comes on the river. Your opponent, afraid of the flush, checks, and you bet $150 into the $400 pot. Your opponent is getting 550-to-150, or about 3.7-to-1.

This means that if your opponent thinks you would bluff in this situation 22 percent of the time or more, he should call. When he calls and loses, you win an additional $150. If you go back and add this to your original calculation, you are risking $100 to win not $300, but $450. The implied odds are 4.5-to-1, making this a correct call.

I’m back from a skiing trip! It wasn’t great but it was cool, a pretty small place so there weren’t many options when it came to slopes.

I did see reindeers, they were dragging sleds, but I didn’t see santa up there in lapland, he should be there somewhere.

I really enjoyed the 6 day break from poker, I don’t know why but as you already know I am just starting to feel that I am pulled in a different direction, poker isn’t really feeling as awesome anymore.

I’m known to change my mind so don’t quote me on that.

I also listened to a pretty cool audiobook called Happy for No Reason, it’s good and it makes you realize how much you can do about your happiness (and I don’t mean the stuff you have or your job).

Did you know for example that researchers have come to the conclusion that 50% of our happiness is determined by our genes and 10% of the other 50% is determined by material stuff, such as job, relationships, money etc.

Pretty mindboggling isn’t it? I’ve always thought that the things in our lives have more impact than that, but the biggest impact comes from within your mind.

Another cool statistic (don’t remember the number exactly but you’ll get the idea). We have around 60,000 thoughts every day, 85-95% of these thoughts are the same thoughts we had yesterday, the day before that and the day before that.

On top of that, over 80% of our thoughts are negative! That’s an average number ofcourse but you get the main idea. These thoughts are automatic, you probably don’t even notice them and they’re making you feel like crap.

Change what’s going on in your mind and increase your happiness.