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54<br />
Let’s try one more.<br />
Hero: J♥7♠<br />
Villain: A♦Q♠<br />
Board: A♥9♠T♦<br />
What is our equity in the hand at this point? We start with our<br />
outs. We only have four 8s as our outs. 4 We’re on the flop and<br />
going to see both the turn and river, so we multiply our outs<br />
times 4 and get an estimate of 16%. If you evaluate this in<br />
<strong>Poker</strong>stove, you’ll find the equity to be 18%. Our estimate is<br />
very close. Let’s have the turn come a 5♦ and check our equity<br />
there. We now take our four outs and multiply times 2 and get<br />
an estimate of 8%. Again, if you evaluate this in <strong>Poker</strong>stove,<br />
you’ll find the equity is 9%. So, you see we can get very close<br />
with the 4/2 rule.<br />
So, have this software out and deal out some hands. Count your<br />
outs, and estimate your equity. Then, enter the hand in<br />
<strong>Poker</strong>stove, and see how you did. It’s a good way to practice<br />
and get very quick at this. After some time, it’ll practically just<br />
be instinctive as you play.<br />
You’ll notice I’ve been stressing that when you’re on the flop,<br />
this equity applies only when you’re going to see this river. A<br />
common occurrence of this is when you get all the money in on<br />
the flop. However, if there is still betting to be had on the turn,<br />
you may make a common mistake. If you’re not all-in on the<br />
flop and there may be betting on the turn, you need to multiply<br />
your outs by two to only account for winning on the next card.<br />
4 We also have one combination of a backdoor straight with a K and Q<br />
on the board. Villain has a Q, so the backdoor is devalued a bit here.<br />
Since it's only one combination, I’m going to ignore it.
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