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what is fold equity?

justinpot87

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January 3, 2012 - 4:42 pm

hey all just joined a few days ago and im really enjoying the vids but im relatively new to poker and i hear alot about fold equity. i was just wondering what it is and how important is it?

Moizt

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January 3, 2012 - 4:46 pm

Fold equity is the chance that your opponant will fold their hand. This is really important in turbo tournaments, and is a big part of being aware of stacksizing in MTTs. For instance, in a turbo you're better off using your stack for fold equity then to get into a coinflip or any other marginal spot.

Hope this helped 🙂

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January 3, 2012 - 7:24 pm

Fold equity is a concept in poker stratergy that is especially important when a player becomes short stacked in a no limit (or possibly pot limit) tournament. It is the equity a player can expect to gain due to the opponent folding to his or her bets. It equates to:

The first half of the formula can be estimated based on reads on opponents or their previous actions. The second part is the equity obtained when the opponent(s) fold to your raise (i.e. the total current pot), minus the equity resulting in case your opponent(s) call your raise (i.e. your showdown equity in the post-raise pot). As the post-raise pot is larger than the current pot, fold equity can be positive as well as negative.

Fold equity becomes an important concept for short stacks for the following reason. Opponents can be considered likely to call all-ins with a certain range of hands. When they will have to use a large percentage of their stack to make the call, this range can be expected to be quite narrow (it will include all the hands the caller expects to win an all-in against the bettor). As the percentage of stack needed to call becomes lower, the range of cards the caller will need becomes wider, and he or she becomes less likely to fold. Consequently, fold equity diminishes. There will be a point at which a caller will need a sufficiently small percentage of their stack to call the all-in that they will do so with any two cards. At that point, the all-in bettor will have no fold equity.

Thanks to Wikipedia for that description. Can try post an example if this doesnt explain it well enough JP87.

martyfm

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February 18, 2012 - 12:00 am

thank you it has been bugging me and confused me , and couldnt find examples or how its used an what fold equity gains for who ??? the pro books mention it and just say there is no fold equity??? i thought it if i fold insted of going all in $$$, its like a dollor saved is a dollor earned for next hand?? thanks very much maybe one day and can buy you a drink, not a drunk hehe.. port orange, marty

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February 18, 2012 - 12:32 am

Moizt said:

Fold equity is the chance that your opponant will fold their hand. This is really important in turbo tournaments, and is a big part of being aware of stacksizing in MTTs. For instance, in a turbo you’re better off using your stack for fold equity then to get into a coinflip or any other marginal spot.

Hope this helped 🙂

so what you saying if you have big stack equity/ fold equity, the opponent will fold their hand?? is like a bully play ???

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February 18, 2012 - 1:46 am

Fold equity is the likely hood a player will fold to your bet-usually a shove. Let's say you have 12BB and shove on the button, the SB has 15BB and the BB has 18BB. If they call and lose you seriously hurt them, so they should only be calling with premiums. When you are shoving less than premos <15BB you want to make sure you have fold equity for those who act after you. You do not want to shove 72o with 12BB with an oppenent that has >100bb, you have no fold equity. If you have fold equity and a hand that flops well you are usually in a good position. It is not always a bully play, but depends on how much they lose calling you. If they call and lose and end up with less than/equal to your stack size, you have good fold equity. It can be used to bully or with a short stack as well.

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