Ok. PLEASE EXPLAIN POT EQUITY, FOLD EQUITY AND FEAR EQUITY IN THE SIMPLEST WORDING POSSIBLE.

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Seriously, I hope no one is going to come along and spoon feed it to you. Try using the search function, or check out the Concept of the week threads on micro full ring forum that discuss these ideas. Or use google for a simple definition.

POT EQUITY IS EQUITY THAT IS IN THE POT, FOLD EQUITY IS EQUITY DERIVED FROM A FOLD AND FEAR EQUITY IS EQUITY FROM FEAR BUT WE CALL IT "PHEAR EQUITY" BECAUSE THAT'S WAY COOLER.

what the hell is fear equity lol?

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Your pot equity is the probability that you'll win the hand. You can calculate it preflop, or on any street. eg. "I was a 70% /30% fav when the money went in."

Sometimes expressed as a $ amount, by multiplying the pot by your percentage chance of winning.
Eg. Pot is $80, you have 45% equity, your equity might be expressed as
$80 x 0.45 = $36

To calculate pot equity accurately (or as accurately as you can, given that you may not know villain's hand exactly, but can only put them on a range) you'll want an equity calculator such as Pokerstove (or, much better imo, the online ProPokerTools).

Fold equity is the chance that your opponent will fold (and you therefore win the pot) if you bet.

It's fold equity that makes semi-bluffing profitable. You win if villain folds, but can still go on to win if he calls.

I've no idea what Fear equity is. Sounds like another name for fold equity.

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Dude I already said that's PHEAR EQUITY

Fear equity is explained in Kill Everyone I believe.

It's the equity you gain from the opponent thinking about how much harder the rest of the tournament is going to be if he were to play this pot with you and lose half his chips for example.

In cash games it's not applicable, if villain plays a pot well and still loses he will just auto-topup and continue playing, knowing equity will even out statistically.

That's ****ing stupid. All your explaining goes into fold equity not something gay like fear equity.

Well...fold equity clearly has lots of sub categories: fear equity, wrong decision equity, nervousness equity, bad pokerness equity...not seeing the problem here

fear equity is something to do with putting someone AI in a tournament i think

this, its just pretty well players being scared to make a move on you, try to steal blinds etc, its supposed to be a way to scare off good players as in kill everyone one of the big factors of equalizing a pro or better players is playing almost a push/fold mentality, meaning that they will be scared to play with you as they know you are willing to get all your chips in at anytime.

Thanks for the help e everyone.

you missed spite equity