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A short course on poker equity and odds

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The Learn tab is a course of 5 units and 28 short lessons, each unit closing with a checkpoint. Unit 1, What equity is, is free with its checkpoint, and every number in the lessons comes from the same engine as the calculator.

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Five units, a checkpoint after each

1. 
   Unit 1 · free

   What equity is

   Who's ahead, by how much, and why it moves.

   After this unit: You judge an all-in by your share of the pot, and you know when a call while behind still pays.

   1. Your share of the pot
   2. Pair against two overcards
   3. When you share a card
   4. Made hand against a draw
   5. Equity moves every street
   6. Behind and still a call

   6 lessons + checkpoint
2. 
   Unit 2

   Outs & hitting odds

   Count the cards that win, and how often one shows up.

   After this unit: You count outs, drop the ones that help them too, and turn the rest into a chance to hit.

   1. Counting outs
   2. From outs to a chance
   3. The rule of four and two
   4. Combo draws
   5. Outs that don't win
   6. Overcards aren't always outs

   6 lessons + checkpoint
3. 
   Unit 3

   Pot odds

   What a call needs, read straight off the bet size.

   After this unit: You work out what a call needs and know when the next card alone has to pay for it.

   1. What a call needs
   2. Bigger bets need more
   3. Call or fold
   4. One card or two
   5. Chips you win later
   6. When hitting costs you

   6 lessons + checkpoint
4. 
   Unit 4

   Equity vs a range

   Your equity against everything they could hold.

   After this unit: You put a range on a player, count its combos, and know your equity against all of it.

   1. Reading a range
   2. Counting combos
   3. They hold a range
   4. Tight, wide, and narrowing
   5. Putting a range on them
   6. AQ against a shove

   6 lessons + checkpoint
5. 
   Unit 5

   Putting it together

   What a call earns, all in or not, and river bluffs.

   After this unit: You run one routine from outs to decision with their cards hidden, and count their bluffs on the river.

   1. What a call earns
   2. Why bet your draw
   3. Count their bluffs
   4. One hand, start to finish

   4 lessons + checkpoint

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