A Quick Challenge on Preflop Equity; No Cheating!

[ProfessorBen]

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It's more useful to know your equity versus a villain's range than a specific hand. The latter rarely comes up and when it does, your hand plays itself.

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it's still helpful to see where you stand in these commone situations. substitute yourself for the AKs or 77 guy. see how your equity stacks up in terms of these specific examples and it becomes easier to estimate equity based on ranges weighted towards a specific type of holdings(ie. a certain draw or top pair or whatever).

in other words, being able to estimate your equity with certain hands in common situations helps estimate equities of complete ranges since alot of them are weighted towards a particular type of holding(based on the board/action usually holds top pair or a draw, etc.).

more importantly this helps you understand WHY something is how it is versus just seeing that something is how it is because the hot/cold sim tells you so(or the forum or a book or whatever). theory man, theory.
don't you see that?

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Common situations can be counted by outs and converted to % pretty simply. Don't really need to stove. That's mostly HU, though so your exercise has a pretty interesting application to multieay. Again, range reading and then stoving that is more useful. No need to get defensive on your baby though.