Quote Originally Posted by Monty3038
Quote Originally Posted by spoonitnow
In NLHE we're heads up on the turn, the pot is $15 and our opponent bets another $10. How much equity do we need against his range to call?
Thanks again Spoon for doing these... I do like them even though I'm normally wrong. They do help.

based upon the thread title I'm disregarding all but Pot Odds. It is my understanding that would be the pot compared to our amount to call... which is $25 against $10. Or 2.5 to 1. Pot Equity says our equit must be greater than our pot odds, thus our chance of winning needs to be better than 1/2.5 = .4 = 40% thus we need to be better than a 40% favorite to win against his range to call profitably...

Close?

Now I'll go back and read the other answers...
Seeing the other answers, I see the fact that I'm miscalculating pot odds though, it appears I need to add in my bet as part of what I am calculating... but I'm unclear as towards why. I understand that ONCE I bet the total pot will be $35 but the fact remains I'm betting 10 to win 25. Not to win 35, as I haven't put it in yet, so the decision needs to be worth putting it in, I guess... but maybe that is what the decision should be based on, the assumption it is in.

That is the confusion on my part I think, guess it's back to basics for me... since it would seem you wouldn't put it in if the odds were bad...

Doing it the other way leads to 1/3.5 = 28.6% so I would need to be ahead of his range more than 28.6% of the time to make this profitable... if I understand it right.