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• Pot Odds: How To Know If A Call PaysPot Odds Compare The Price Of A Call With What It Can Win: Facing A Half Pot Bet You Must Put In One Unit To Win Three, So A Call Needs 25% Equity To Break Even.
• Minimum Defense Frequency (MDF)Minimum Defense Frequency Is The Share Of Your Range You Must Continue With So A Bluff Cannot Profit Automatically: Against A Pot Sized Bet It Is 50%, And Against A Half Pot Bet It Is 66.7%.
• How Often A Bluff Must WorkA Pure Bluff Breaks Even When It Works As Often As The Bet Divided By The Pot Plus The Bet: A Half Pot Bluff Needs 33.3% Folds And A Pot Sized Bluff Needs 50%.
• Counting Outs And The Rule Of 2 And 4An Out Is A Card That Improves Your Hand To The Likely Winner; From The Flop, 9 Outs Hit By The River 35% Of The Time, And The Rule Of 4 Estimates That As 36%.
• Counting Poker Hand CombinationsEvery Pocket Pair Has 6 Combinations, Every Suited Hand 4 And Every Offsuit Hand 12, For 1326 Starting Hands In All, And Cards You Can See Remove Combinations From Your Opponent's Range.
• Expected Value (EV) In PokerExpected Value Is The Average Result Of A Decision If You Could Repeat It Forever: Calling 50 To Win 150 With 30% Equity Is Worth 10 Chips A Time On Average, Even Though It Loses Most Of The Times You Make It.
• Implied Odds: When A Draw Can CallImplied Odds Are The Chips You Expect To Win On Later Streets When Your Draw Hits: A Flush Draw On The Turn Facing A Half Pot Bet Needs About 56 More Chips From Later Betting, Per 100 In The Pot, To Make The Call Break Even.

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