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Old 03-11-2005, 02:29 AM
UncleSalty UncleSalty is offline
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Default Re: A/10o in LP - Too aggro PF?

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With a 10BB+ pot I thought that having 20% equity would mean I can raise to 2BB with multiple callers. No? Am I totally misinterpreting SSH here?

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You're confusing pot equity with pot odds.

Pot equity (actually, pot equity edge) is computed by comparing the chance that you will win the pot with what your "fair share" is. You determine what your fair share is by counting the number of opponents.

In this hand, you have around 20% pot equity becasue you will improve to the best hand and win about 20% of the time. (Count & discount the outs to determine this.) But there are a total of 5 people contending for the pot, including yourself. So your fair share is 1/5, or 20%. If your pot equity is more than youjr fair share, you have a pot equity edge, and you should raise. If you don't have an equity edge, it might be right to call (pot odds tell you this), but you can't raise for value.

Make sense?


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I guess I called the river because I thought A high could be the best hand about 10% of the time.

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There is absolutely no way your hand is best 10% of the time here. There are lots of clues, but one real big clue is the fact that the villan bet in to the PF raiser (you) and kept the pressure on through the turn. He likes his hand.

I would say A high is best maybe 1% of the time. Less, even.

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Much clearer, thanks.
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