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Believe it or not one of my degrees is actually in Math so it doesn't scare me at all, I actually enjoy it. Sometimes I just get lost in the nitty gritty of it, especially when trying to teach myself all the stuff.

Okay so for clarification, equity as I understand in laymen's terms is "our share of the pot." So if we have 40% equity then we can use this to determine quickly if a call is +EV, but not anything else correct? So if our call is equal to 40% of the to bet pot, aka call/(current pot+call) = 40% we have a BE move? Just trying to get all these things straight in my head.

Originally Posted by lombracremisi

Believe it or not one of my degrees is actually in Math so it doesn't scare me at all, I actually enjoy it. Sometimes I just get lost in the nitty gritty of it, especially when trying to teach myself all the stuff.

Okay so for clarification, equity as I understand in laymen's terms is "our share of the pot." So if we have 40% equity then we can use this to determine quickly if a call is +EV, but not anything else correct? So if our call is equal to 40% of the to bet pot, aka call/(current pot+call) = 40% we have a BE move? Just trying to get all these things straight in my head.

That is correct, but even that is a shortcut resulting from the underlying EV equation, as you can see in this other epic post by Spoon: http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerfo...ll-173396.html
(see the "extra credit: proving the shortcut" paragraph)

It is also incorrect to think that equity is only used in the above case: you will be using equity in all the EV equations you will be making. Equity is indeed your "fair share" of the pot, and it differs from win% only because you sometimes tie.

So EV equations are very much the cornerstone of pokermath and it is important to master them.

Thanks for the clarification guys. I've read many of the articles you've posted daviddem, however I think I didn't read them critically enough and just got lost with the math and why it means what it means. I think this thread has in all reality clarified a lot for me and I should be able to get a lot more out of Spoon's threads now.