bloody fold equity does my head in , there is another way which is easier to pick up which i"ll put in a later post.
Looking at boshis scenario just from a pure is it +or- ev if we shove but think we have no FE i"ll put up some numbers and try to explain it as best i can so that for those that dont know but are interested then they can take something from the thread..
EV - to determine if u have positive expectation your pot/implied odds need to be better than your calculated equity.
if you were to pokerstove boshis AKdd versus a set he would have 33% equity,he has 8600 behind so if he shoves and is only called by the german boshi will win 10600 33% of the time but 67% of the time he will lose 9000.
as i put villains on equal stacks of 9000 on the flop i do not count boshis 400 lead as in the pot,we have foggys 1200 plus preflop 400 equals 1600 - we are playing for the germans stack of 9000 - shove 9000 to win 10600
WIN 33% of 10600 = 3498
LOSE 67% of 9000 = 6030
WIN - LOSE = EV
3498-6030 = EV -2532 [not good we want positive expectation]
ok now i"ll do the same for a scenario if the german calls with 2 pair which rounded on stove makes boshi 45%
WIN 45% of 10600 = 4770
LOSE 55% of 9000 = 4950
WIN - LOSE = EV
4770-4950 = EV -180 [close but no cigar to breaking even]
anyhows i hope this helps someone when they want to review there hands to see if it was + or - ev , helpful in mtts as well as cash..
the numbers are pretty close but not 100% , u can figure in ties but mostly if ties are below 3% then there is not much significance on the numbers imho plus i rounded up and down...Also i use the equity % not the win %"s
if you wanted to work Fold Equity,things start getting a little trickier but not hard to learn,i"ll do an example later but
roughly it is - we multiply the EV if he calls number by the chance that we think he does call % and get a number....
then using the what we think fold % number, we use that number in the same methods above to get a FE....
we would then add FE and EVcall to get a EVtotal with FE built in...