Poker Math That Matters

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So, the equation looks like this.
10 / (10 + 20)
10/30 = 0.333
I give different methods so you can use the one with which you
feel the most comfortable.
We’ll do one more for practice. Let’s imagine that same $10
pot, except this time our opponent bets $5. Now we’re getting
15:5 which can be reduce to 3:1. Turning this into a percentage,
we get 1
or 25%. Or, we could use the x / (x+y) method.
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x=5 and y=15
5 / (5+15)
5/20 = 0.25
So, if we make the call and win 25% of the time, we will break
even with our call. And again, we want to win the pot more than
25% so we’re actually making money on average.
Let’s run four trials of this situation and watch how it works. If
we won the pot one time out of four and lost the pot the other
three times, our results would look like this.
1 st time we lose $5.
2 nd time we lose $5.
3 rd time we lose $5.
4 th time we win $15.