Join Date: Jun 2015
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You are probably locked up in the mindset that equity is used to calculate the likelihood that you will make a winning hand based on your draws. But it is equally valid to calculate equity when you are ahead based on the liklihood that your opponent will not make their draw. That is what is going on in your example.
Generic advice-download equilab and run all sorts of scenerios, from being ahead to being behind. Just for fine, see if you can figure out the scenerios where you are technically ahead after the flop, but are way behind in terms of equity.