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Equity in a pot is a players expected share of the pot, expressed either as a percentage (probability of winning) or expected value (amount of pot * probability of winning).

Equity in a pot is a players expected share of the pot, expressed either as a percentage (probability of winning) or expected value (amount of pot * probability of winning).

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How big an edge can you have on a tournament field ? ROI vs edge question

The situation: You are playing a deep stack tournament with 300BB starting stack. Let's suppose you have exactly 300% ROI in this field, in this specific tournament. UTG goes all-in on the first hand, everybody folds until you in the BB, you look at…
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Equity calculation

Flop = T♥ 7♥ 6♥ Player 1 = 4♠ 3♥ Player 2 = 5♥ 2♠ Whats the equity of Player 1 on this flop ? Equity calculators give it 43.54% (18.5% for tie and 25.04% for win). No matter how hard i tried to break it down on simple probabilities and try to reach…
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What's wrong with my equity calculation?

When answering this question, I went ahead and tried to do a manual equity calculation for the scenario described (7♥4♠ vs A♠8♣ on a board of 6♥2♥8♥), but am getting a different result than I see using any online equity calculators, so wanted to see…
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equity issue with equity calculator software

sorry for what is likely a straightforward question but when using equilab I see the following: my hand: 8♥8⋄ board (flop+turn): 6♥8♣Q♣K⋄ If I calculate the equity of my hand versus: A♣9♣ it is (me/villain): +/- 84/16 K♣J♣ it is…
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Area under graph in PPT simulations

On the site http://propokertools.com/simulations you have the ability to do equity simulations and also to graph the minimum equity% on flops. What does the area under the curve of the PPT graph represent? How is the related with the hot-cold equity…
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Calculating Odds for 3 of a kind

I am confused by this odds calculation here: https://www.pokernews.com/poker-tools/poker-odds-calculator.htm Basically the scenario that I have is below: I understand everything except for the 3 of a kind. Could someone please explain how the 3 of…
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Avg equity on flop vs range

I'd like to calculate the average of the equities on the flop in Texas Holdem for a particular starting hand vs. particular ranges. PokerStove can nicely do this except that it calculates the equities on the river and in example, I would like to see…
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Calculating equity of ranges

I want to calculate the equity of a range against another range. The problem is: how does one weight the different hands in each range? For example: Let us say we have the range {AA, 76o} and opponent's range is only AKs. Without removal effect,…
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Can someone explain in simple terms what equity means?

I've seen examples where commentators mention that he has a good equity to make a call. I do understand what poker odds are. Can some one give a simple example to help understand what equity/fold-equity is? Explain it to me like I'm a 5 year old.
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Equity in calculating my range vs opponent range

I'm trying to find a way to assess how good my postflop hands are in my open source pokerbot. Normal equity calculation certainly gives an indication how good the hands are if we play until the river but I'm looking for a better alternative. One…
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Equity with ranges

What equity do I have in the following situation: Board: 3⋄9♥A♠7♠Q♥ Hero: K♠K♣ Villain 1: Top 25% Villain 2: Top 25% According to this calculator, I have 32.80%. But I don't believe that. The range of 25% contains the following hands…
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Calling on river with pair of Aces?

I have the hand history as below where I folded on the river. Assuming no ranges I have equity of around 85%. But given the opponent's preflop play I would give it a range of around 15-20%, which would reduce my equity to around 60%. Should I have…
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How to calculate preflop equity in hand vs hand

What I really want to know is how is the procedure that pokerstove like software use to calculate the equity of one hand against another.
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Am I supposed to deny equity to draws?

This is one area of poker where I find even the leading authors seem to disagree. In the Course by Ed Miller, he seems to say that you shouldn't worry about draws getting there since your overall EV is still positive if you have more showdown…
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What's the best hand against 9 people in the hand?

Imagine the situation you can choose any 2 cards against 9 other players with random cards, is AA mathematically going to have the most equity?
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