Hi,
I watched Jonathan Little perform a hand range calculation using Equilab tools. He entered his opponent's complete hand range, and he then entered a percentage for his own range which Equilab used to calculate the exact hands that could meet that criteria. Can someone tell me if I can do the same using Pokercruncher? I see the sliding percentage bar, but the resulting hands are nothing like what he came up with! Any help appreciated, Mary

I’m not sure if I understood what Little did, but I think he was using the Equilab Hand Range Calculator. Here are the steps.

1. Enter for Player 1 (P1) an exact range or a top percent range. If the latter, Equilab will show all hands that meet that range according to its hand ranking (PokerCruncher may have a different ranking but all ranking systems will have AA as the top rated hand, for example.)

2. Then go to the Hand Range Calculator tool which will have P1’s range shown.

3. You then enter a critical equity for Player 2 (P2), say E, so that Equilab provides all hands that meet or exceed that equity; i.e. every hand has equity equal to or greater than the critical equity against P1’s range.

4. You can transfer that set of P2 hands to the Main Window to calculate the equity of P1’s’s range against the range found in step 3. It should be obvious that this equity will be Higher than E since every P2 hand in the calculated range has equity of at least E against P1’s range.

Example: P1’s range is KK. Critical equity is 60%. The only hand that has that equity is AA

Note: P1 can be hero or P2 – up to you

I don’t know if PokerCruncher has this tool. It it did, it could come up with different results because of hand ranking difference but, for the top ranked at least, there should be good correlation.

Thank you, statmanhal. Yes, that is what Jonathan did. Turns out that Pokercruncher Expert does have a similar feature and a great help desk. You seem to understand (better than I do) why the results might differ ever so slightly, but I was able to get a comparable. Thanks

So can you tell me how you did this in poker cruncher? I'm still confused.

Hello,
(I’m the developer of PokerCruncher)

This can be done in the Mac-Expert version of PokerCruncher, using the “filter range on equity” feature:

https://www.pokercruncher.com/ipPoke...dRangeOnEquity

There’s an example with steps in the above tutorial section, I’ll copy/paste it below.
Regards,
-RJ

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Example: Calculate What Range Has 33% Equity Against Opponent's Range:

Steps:

1) Click ResetAll button to start clean.

2) For Player1 (opponent), enter his range.

3) For Player2 (you), we'll calculate what range has 33% equity against Player1's range. The "E" button for this is a filter operation, so we'll start with the all-hands range (max range) and filter it down. So for Player2 enter the range Top100% of hands e.g. by using the range slider. Or instead of 100% of hands you can start with whatever applicable preflop range you desire.

4) Calculate (click "Calculate" button).

5) Click the "E" button and follow the directions e.g. enter the 33% equity value. Player2's range will then be filtered down to the hands/cells that have >= 33% equity.