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04-15-2024 , 02:21 PM

zsoltgyero

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Join Date: Nov 2023 Posts: 14

Hello,

Can someone please explain in another way how these numbers (in the red square) resulted? maybe with another example? I can't seem to figure out the math...

https://upswingpoker.com/analyze-poker-hand-techniques/

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04-15-2024 , 09:32 PM

GreatWhiteFish

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Join Date: Oct 2013 Posts: 338

This video explains it well.

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04-17-2024 , 04:17 AM

tombos21

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Join Date: Sep 2018 Posts: 2,060

I explain this concept in detail in this video

Here's the math cheatsheet:

Value% = the product of (1-pot odds) for this and future streets
Bluff% = 1 - Value%
Giveup% = Previous street's pot odds

And here's a spreadsheet calculator

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04-18-2024 , 10:33 PM

Ceres

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Join Date: Mar 2019 Posts: 3,073

I'm not a person who absorbs maths well. I'm more of a logic/visual person. So nothing really made sense until I got a solver and could see the EV flying around per street within the range itself.

The red box is just the raw application of pot odds spread out backwards across the three streets. In essence these are the main laws governing how we should play our range if we take pot odds as absolute, but it's extremely abstract and poorly explained in that article. Don't sweat it.

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