I think that Sklansky refers to Effective Odds
when determining whether or not to play this hand through. Clearly a -EV unless you're getting tremendous odds as to make this hand pay, you will likely need to make at least one BB if your first card DOESN'T hit and at least 2 BB's if it does. Since the odds of hitting your miracle hand is alomost 25:1, the pot should be offering close to 30:1 on the flop in order to play this hand if your hand has no other value. On the otherhand, if you have top pair or if you have 6 other outs from holding two suited overcards, you can go with a slightly lesser pot.
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