Cos is fold equity – La Gazzetta dello Sport

To win at the table you have to do chips and increase your stack. If we stop for a moment to think, there is not only one way to accumulate pieces of plastic. We often do it because everyone passes. So let’s explain to good what Fold Equity is and what the parties are, in terms of calculation, more complicated to understand

Vittoria Uncontested

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Let’s imagine the classic scene in which the whole table passes, BUTTONE ROLANCIA and we counter-rows (3bettiamo) from large darkness. Regardless of the reasons that lead us to make that certain move (value, bluff, position of the original Raiser), we can win the dish thanks to a simple fold of others. For those who do not yet know poker jargon, this is one Vittoria Uncontested or: you do not get to show the cards to determine the winner. They take the chip at home by virtue of the opponents folds. Avoiding, many players would tell you that they are willing to give up a little value in order to almost always win in an uncontested way. In this situation, in fact, not showing the cards, we do not give useful information on our game line, thus remaining “mysterious” in the eyes of the other players at the table. As we have repeatedly remembered, you have information is essential in poker game. Over the years, the attention has rightly shifted from the episode by value to that to make the opponent folded. The strategic scale must be in the right balance: strong points on the one hand, bluff and semi-bluffs on the other

What is fold equity and how it is calculated

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Wanting to give the general definition: Fold equity is the frequency, calculated as a percentage, of the times our opponent will pass (or should pass) your hand Faced with our episode in such a way as to make our Bet profitable in the long run. A very basic example is: we are on the button with a stack of 3 total darkness. Let’s go allin. Small Blind passes while BB, which plays for 200 BB, must decide whether to call or not. The answer is very simple. We don’t have fold equity That is, the strength of our episode will never make our opponent folded. If we play 100 bb from BTN we could safely win the dish in the preflop! The formula for the calculation is: episode divided the sum of the dish and episode. Is it a really important concept? Certain! The main reason is that we must not consider the real strength of our hand. The idea is to bring home the uncontested dish. What is the complicated part of the concept? We do not have an objective statistical confrontation between formula and opposing decision. Having 40% of Fold Equity means that our episode generates profit in the long run only if our opponent, in a spot of that kind, will have a fold frequency of 40% higher. We don’t know that, or rather, we try to understand it at the table