DMACM
09-05-2005, 03:41 AM
I have been posting here a while and I always thought I understood what fold equity was but now im starting to doubt this. It seems to me there are two ways in which you could have fold equity.
a. You have enough chips to put target opponent to a decision for all his chips or to a decision that will cripple him if he calls and loses.
b. You cannot cripple target opponents stack but you have enough chips that you can allow target opponent to fold without giving him great pot odds to call.
I often here in posts that "I pushed here because I was about to lose fold equity" which type of fold equity are they refering to A or B? I think I had always assumed that having fold equity meant having enough chips to NOT give an opponent great odds on a call so I would figure my fold equity based on how many X the bb I had, but lately I find that being able to threaten a stack is more indicative of whether a player will fold, at least at the 11 and 22. Since better players would call based on pot odds perhaps you would see a reversal at higher levels?
a. You have enough chips to put target opponent to a decision for all his chips or to a decision that will cripple him if he calls and loses.
b. You cannot cripple target opponents stack but you have enough chips that you can allow target opponent to fold without giving him great pot odds to call.
I often here in posts that "I pushed here because I was about to lose fold equity" which type of fold equity are they refering to A or B? I think I had always assumed that having fold equity meant having enough chips to NOT give an opponent great odds on a call so I would figure my fold equity based on how many X the bb I had, but lately I find that being able to threaten a stack is more indicative of whether a player will fold, at least at the 11 and 22. Since better players would call based on pot odds perhaps you would see a reversal at higher levels?