rowhousepd
Rock Star
Silver Level
Newbie question here.... I've been doing a lot of postmortems lately on individual hands, using PokerStove to figure out my equity, posting them, etc. A lot of times the results don't surprise me at all, but often it does. I'm curious how people figure out equity (just roughly I mean) when you're playing a hand? If you don't have a read on your opponent, and you're just trying to get a ballpark idea of your equity before you play the rest of the hand, is there a way to crunch the numbers and come up with it w/out the luxury of PokerStove?
Here's an example. Keep in mind it's a math question here, not a strategy question.
On the flop I have A
K
, there are 3 other opponents, and the board is K
8
3
. With TPTK, no draws, and a safe board, it's not surprising that my equity is (apparently) 70% w/ the three other villains at 10%. Great, I'm a big favorite, no s--t. But is it feasible to come up with that 70% number on the fly while you're playing? I mean, is there a simple formula people use? I guess I'm asking in part because although I understand why certain hands dominate others, I kinda get how PStove gets it's #s, I don't how to come up with them w/ out software like this.
Again, I'm talking about coming up w/ rough estimates here and not about strategy. Am I just not good w/ numbers or is there something I'm missing.
Here's an example. Keep in mind it's a math question here, not a strategy question.
On the flop I have A
Again, I'm talking about coming up w/ rough estimates here and not about strategy. Am I just not good w/ numbers or is there something I'm missing.