dude, i love your channel. thank you for all this free content!

This is great, thank you so much. You explain it all perfectly.

Hey there, big fan of your videos here! Thanks for all the effort you put into this. I have two questions regarding EV in general. 1. Is there a way to efficiently use EV in SNGs, since for example it wouldn't make sense to call with all of my Chips with an equity of 35% and +EV, since 65% of the times I'm going to bust. In the long run i'm gonna get more Chips in total, yes, but I'm gonna loose more SNGs, or am I completly missing out on something? 2. Let's say I'm a small stake player, 50c1$ nl cash game. I play most of my games in this category and I focus on making +EV plays. Can I still sometimes play a higher stake, like 1$2$ and make the same +EV plays? Since when I loose money with those +EV calls in my rarely played higher stakes, the +EV calls in the smaller stakes probably won't make up for it. I hope i made my questions clear and not too confusing, English isn't my native language.

Concerning the mutation of the pot size in the example starting at (0:50). I understand the pot showing the start of $1.50 containing the blinds. I see the pot grow normally through 3Bet. But near the end of the betting round, 4Bet and 5Bet, ending at (0:58) the pot indicates $130.50. Should that not be $146.50? Thanks

Hey James, I am a big fan of all of your content. Please keep it coming. Currently, I am working through the Math & Preflop workbook and I'm struggling with the EV: Advanced Section. I don't understand how to calculate %w and %L based on the questions. Using Questions 2. on page 153. How do you use the assumed fold% and %equity when called to calculate the %w and %L. I feel like I have watched all your videos on the subject several times but I am missing something.

is there an equation to finding out how often villain folds/calls 5bet shove here??

Hi! Thanks for the video, it´s great!! I´m from Argentina, so sometimes it can be difficult for me to understand some things, is there some way to don´t use a calculator to use this formula, i mean like some standard numbers to remember? Thank you!

hello the poker bank! i am a big fan of your work, you do it cause your love it, i can tell that! you are also really smart. I have been thinking, when you plug 0.25 for how often villain folds when he 4bet bluffs, dont you have to plug some bluffs at the equity calculator too??. You plugged 0.25 for how often villain folds but the range you plugged was '' TT +, AKo, AKs and that was it...when he bluffs 25% of the time out equity is a bit better than that...isn it?

At 2:37 in the video, the video explains, that %C is the villain's equity, when he calls. However, there is no %C variable in the formula. The only C, that is, is allready defined as C, which is an estimation of how often villain will call hero's shove.

What's an easy way to multiply decimals like .25(34.5) and .75(.27x117.5) from your example. Sadly I've forgotten everything from math class

Let me try one really quick, but using extra short cuts I made up. Let me know SS if this is incorrect thinking, better thinking, or somewhere in between. blinds $1/$2 6 max, UTG opens $4, co raises to $15 I cold shove 78o to $140 and I think villain(s) is folding about half the time. When called, I expect to have ~%28 equity. Pot is 3 from the blinds, 4 from utg, and 15 from co. That is 22. Half the time I pick up 22, giving me $11 in equity on the shove inherently. Half the time the pot becomes 300 or so, and I get %28 of that back with some variance (around $90 in value) Therefore, I have $101 in equity in the situation, losing me $39 in expected value. Good thing I am balanced with a few combos of KK and AK. xD

Cool! Thanks for the great info!

Lets say you want to bluff shove a flop in a tourney. Your equity against his pre flop calling range is about 50 50 on the flop because you hit bottom pair. You also work out the combos of his range and realize that he'll probably fold about 80% of the time. Would you use the original equity calculation or the much more dominant calling range of the villain? Lets say when he calls you now have 20% equity... would you use that or stick with the original 50 50? I would assume you'd want to use the equity you calculate if villain calls (20%). Btw I'm not saying that this is an optimal move... maybe it could be a river shove... but I just want to make sure I'm doing the correct math. Thank you so much Splitsuit! I've become a MUCH stronger player thanks to you... Please don't ever stop!

Does this formula work if I'm just calculating how profitable a 3bet is preflop? For ex. btn raises 3x, I'm in the bb and I 3bet 3x btns raise?

Hi, Does this apply for bvb situation? blinds 150/300 and Im in SB with 1850 after posting. In this situation do I must calculate -1850 If I give up preflop? and (%w*$w)-(%L*$L) Thank you very much for your time.

So in a 4handed game UTG10/7 over 175hands open raised 3bbs, bttn called 21/12 over 43sample, and I cc from bb with J9h...Flop Kh8h4c....check, UTG bets 5bb, bttn calls...hero??....not sure how to work implied odds into this hand...

I'd ilke to have seen the equity equation of the call.. it seems to me it has better EV. Doesn't it?

One Question, the same scenario we assume after all math gives us a -5$ EV, we have already lost 10$ with 3b, now if we go all in, we lose 15$ or we save 5$? or the 10 are already dead and we lost more 5? Thanks, wait for replay.

what if the ev+ is too low in comparison with the risk, that no compensate because the house win a % of our money? For example in an all in move where we bet 100$ with an ev+ of 3$ and the house win a 5% of the pot. the house win 5$ from us. that would make us lose 2$ in the long term. Is right?

How bout if the pot is split? Both lose because of the rake.

To include ties I used this formula (%W * $W) + (%T * $W) - (%L *$L) ..is this right? I would like to try some multi-street EV calcs but that seems like it would get complicated in a hurry.

At the end of this video, he says that we can take it further. I was wondering how this was so and what factor it would be

This is very interesting info. But - seriously, how can you have time to calculate it? For example in online Poker.. you got 10 seconds timer.. so even if you are using the equilab, its not enough time... ?

howinclude the rake in cash games in the formula?

This video is the nuts. Just a question : How do you evaluate his % fold ? Do you use fold vs 5 bet ? Fold vs 5 bet vs hero ? How many hands to be accurate ?. Do you use also stats/notecaddy to find vilain calling range/.... ? Is there a formula to find a calling range based on the 4 bet range stat ? Like 4bet range x %call 5 bet.

Thanx

it is always better to have better F equity than %W i think???

Does anyone 4bet bluff that much ?

Theory: Plus EV shove with 86h Reality: Snap called by A10os

How would the loss be $96 wouldn't it be $112 since this is what the video shows he had behind?

is there any program that calculate it automatically?

WHAT IS EV

Ya pues

1:19 4. He calls and we split the pot

Just posting this here, in the case that you do respond. I imagine you have some sort of mathematical background, in whatever capacity. In finance, as well as economics, these types of formulas and similar concepts are preset, but there are so many different theories and variables, which could produce varying outcomes. My question is: Doesn't that occur here, and make this sort of an inexact science?

who really has that much time to figure out the odds, theres a time bank for most hands

i did not understand why 117.5 and not 107.5... if he calls and we win.. we would win 107.5... i am confused

if you do this in every hand you are crazy, too much.

it all commest to speculation, because you need to make assumptions. the other player can have any cards he wants to play ergo your shove with such bullshit hand is just a gamble

nice math but not practical, most of the times you have no idea of folding/calling percentage of your opponent …and even if, you never have time to calculate such a complex formula in live or online games ….you can only speculate and you need to have learned the ev stats of each hand off table before