I’ve been told that since my article on pot odds in last month’s mag, the PokerPlayer postbag has been bulging with requests for more on the subject. Apparently I’ve woken the sleeping maths nerd within you. You should now have a solid grounding in the theory of pot odds and how they should dictate your play based on the odds or probability of winning the hand in relation to the amount of money in the pot.

Well, that’s not quite the end of the story. This month’s exciting revelation is that you can also play hands when you’re not getting immediate value from the pot – thanks to ‘implied odds’.