Different approach for preflop calling decisions

[mvdgaag]

sure, but how often would you... You'll need to get very lucky and then, if you have huge implied odds you will only win small in the long run. I think there are many more truely profitable spots to win chips where you gamble less and are able to keep a tight image.

[alanbrown]

I actually wrote something that calculated the odds of being ahead on each street instead of just on showdown. Then I realized that I wanted to include drawing hands into the analysis and grade the quality of those drawing hands.

Then I realized that looking at showdown equity was the way to do that! It rolls up the drawing equity and the made equity into a single useful value