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Combo draw vs top pair: are you the favourite all-in on the flop?

Villain shoves 10 bb into a 10 bb pot on the flop.

Your hand
9♥8♥
Board
T♥7♥2♣
Facing
10 bb into 10 bb
Villain range: custom · 66 of 82 combos live
AA,KK,QQ,AT,KT,QT,JT

Villain has an overpair or top pair. No sets, no draws.

Call+6.38 bb for calling
54.6% equity against 33.3% needed

What it shows

Fifteen outs twice beats a single made pair outright. Folding here is the expensive kind of caution: against this range you are the favourite, not just priced in.

The working

  1. Range. The stated range is 82 combos. 16 of them use a card you can see (your hand or the board), which leaves 66.
  2. Equity. You win 54.6% and chop 0.0%, so equity is 54.6% + 0.0% ÷ 2 = 54.6%. Each hand class gets 20,000 sampled runouts with its own fixed seed, weighted by live combos. Sampling error is about ±0.12 points (one standard error).
  3. Price. Calling risks the bet to win the pot plus the bet, so break-even is bet ÷ (pot + 2 × bet) = 10 ÷ (10 + 2 × 10) = 33.3%.
  4. EV. equity × (pot + bet) − (1 − equity) × bet = 0.5461 × 20 − 0.4539 × 10 = +6.38 bb. Folding is 0, so that is the whole difference between the two options.

Where the equity comes from

Your equity against every hand class in the range, with how much of the range each one is. The total above is these rows averaged by combo count.

VillainCombosShareWinChopYour equity
JTo913.6%51.8%0.0%51.8%
JTs34.5%52.4%0.0%52.4%
AA69.1%54.6%0.0%54.6%
KK69.1%54.8%0.0%54.8%
QQ69.1%54.9%0.0%54.9%
KTo913.6%55.1%0.0%55.1%
ATo913.6%55.1%0.0%55.1%
QTo913.6%55.4%0.0%55.4%
KTs34.5%55.9%0.0%55.9%
ATs34.5%56.0%0.0%56.0%
QTs34.5%56.0%0.0%56.0%
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// what is computed, and what is assumed
  • Computed: card removal, equity (exact on the river, sampled with fixed seeds before it), the break-even price, and the EV of calling. Same engine, same seeds, same numbers for anyone who opens the link.
  • Assumed: the range. Villain bets every combo in it, all equally often. The four archetype ranges are our assumptions and are printed in full; a pasted range is yours.
  • Assumed: this is the last bet. Before the river, the EV counts you as seeing every remaining card with no more money going in. That is exact when the bet is all-in (every worked example below is) and optimistic otherwise, because it ignores implied odds and reverse implied odds alike.
  • Pot is everything in the middle except the bet you face; bet is what it costs you to call. Range notation: AA, AKs, AKo, AK (both), TT+, ATs+, 22-55, A2s-A5s. No weights or single combos.

More worked spots

Flop, facing an all-in