Can somebody explain equity please?

that's enough from everyone

OP, please attempt to use the search function OR read the Digest/stickies and resurrect past threads instead of starting new ones. If you want personalized answers you're going to have to ask personalized questions.

If you two could just try to avoid each other you'd be saving me a lot of grief. Thanks.

As for your post, plain and simple equity is the % of the time a player should expect to win a pot once all 5-cards are dealt. Programs like pokerstove help us to solve very complex cases but if you want to understand how to do it yourself it's quite simple. All you need to know is an estimation of the number of outs (cards that win you the hand) versus cards (non-outs) that do not. Once you know this it's quite a simple mathematical equation where equity= (#of outs) / (total number of unseen cards). This would be with one street left. With two it's slightly more complex, but it would be:

[1-(chance to hit the turn)*(chance to hit the river)]*[100]

Can somebody explain equity please?

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02-05-2009 07:00 PM #15
bigspenda73 View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message View Blog Entries Join Date Jul 2006 Posts 13,459 Location Pwnsylvania	that's enough from everyone OP, please attempt to use the search function OR read the Digest/stickies and resurrect past threads instead of starting new ones. If you want personalized answers you're going to have to ask personalized questions. If you two could just try to avoid each other you'd be saving me a lot of grief. Thanks. As for your post, plain and simple equity is the % of the time a player should expect to win a pot once all 5-cards are dealt. Programs like pokerstove help us to solve very complex cases but if you want to understand how to do it yourself it's quite simple. All you need to know is an estimation of the number of outs (cards that win you the hand) versus cards (non-outs) that do not. Once you know this it's quite a simple mathematical equation where equity= (#of outs) / (total number of unseen cards). This would be with one street left. With two it's slightly more complex, but it would be: [1-(chance to hit the turn)(chance to hit the river)][100]