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All the following examples are taken from the data for a Pair of Aces. All the odds figures are expressed as percentages.

Above is part of the contents page. There is a comparable table for each section (hand ranges, summary, the flop and the turn and the river. Note that every hand has a hyperlink that will take you straight to the relevant page when you click on it.

Since you will not know your opponents starting hand in a live situation, you are unlikely to use this section during a game. However it may be useful when studying hands or scenarios to know your exact win chance at the start of the hand. Underneath this table (not shown here) is a summary of all hands where the odds of a split pot are greater than 10%. These are marked with an asterix in the table, as with a Pair of Aces vs a Pair of Aces above. Where the odds of a split pot are less than 10%, they are incorporated into the starting hand odds as part of the win chance.

Note that this table is purely heads up- in other words it expresses the hand's starting win chance against one other hand. Win chances against more than one hand are shown separately, and are not displayed in these examples.

 This section is possibly the most valuable. It is impossible to know your opponent's starting hand, but educated knowledge of what range of hands they play will give you a very good idea of what strength of hand they are playing.

A Pair of Aces is not the best example to illustrate this, as clearly its win chance is very high against any other hand, but lesser hands have a much wider range of success against a tight player playing a 10% range as opposed to a loose player playing a 50% range.

Careful observation and practice will help you put your opponents on a range- although of course there are also many software tools available online that will do the work for you!

This section is useful not only for the win chances against groups of hands, but also for the information on how likely you are to encounter such situations.

If you are playing King-Queen, for example, it is useful to know how frequently you will encounter an Ace on the flop.

This section summarises the chances of you improving your hand on the Flop, the Turn, and the River.

6 Handed Equity Calulator

The calculation for Expected $ value ($eV) is extremely complex and is already done for you by this spreadsheet. All you have to do is enter the relevant tournament information- that is the total number of chips, the stack size of each player up to a maximum of six, and the prize distribution percentages. This will generate the information seen on the left of the sheet above- that is current stack sizes, current $ value of each player, and their % of both chips and $ value at this point in time.

You can then study scenarios by changing each stack and studying how equity changes in relation to stack size. Do this simply by entering the change in stack size in the yellow boxes, ensuring that the sum of the changes is zero. On a separate sheet, you will also find some charts that illustrate how the stack sizes and $eV of each player have changed. Note how all the players who did not play this particular scenario gain significant equity by folding:

When to Raise- Profit & Loss Forecaster

It is possible to forecast your potential gain & loss when raising. The most important factor you need to consider is how often you are going to get called. If the number of times you are going to be called is low, it is likely that raising will be a profitable tactic because the amount that you will win through the blinds folding will outweigh the occasions where you get called and lose. This spreadsheet does all the calculations for you- simply enter the relevant data in the yellow boxes at the top of the sheet, and it generates two forecast profit/loss percentages. The first is based purely on the figures entered replayed over 100 hands. The second is the same, but with an adjustment downwards to account for the times when you will bust out. In other words, if you expect to make a 20% profit through raising and you will bust out 10% of the time, your adjusted profit figure would be 18% (10% taken off 20%). This is less scientific, but a good way of accounting for the risk of busting out.

The hyperlinks take you to notes on the model, and a couple of explanations, such as active stack, and a rationale of how your stack will change on average in relation to your winning chance.  There is also a seperate sheet which deals with multiple callers.

When to Call- Profit and Loss forecaster

Unlike raising, where on many occasions you will win chips unopposed, calling carries greater risk. You are entering a pot where someone else has already shown strength by raising, and by definition when you call you will go to showdown most of the time. There are therefore more factors to take into account than when raising. This spreadsheet weighs up the risks of losing a big hand (and possibly busting out) against the forecast profit you will make by calling, and converts this to a recommendation of call or fold. Simply enter the relevant data into the yellow boxes. There is a separate sheet that examines multiple callers.

Pot odds calculator

Quite often pot odds are relatively simple to calculate in your head, but this spreadsheet not only calculates the pot odds for you it converts this to your required win chance % to break even if you call. There is also a section that calculates what pot odds you will be offering to subsequent players if you limp or raise, and will be therefore useful in helping you to bet the right amount at the right time.