Poker Equity Calculator

What poker equity means

Equity is your share of the pot if the hand were played out from here many times with no more betting. At 60% equity in a 100-chip pot, your share is worth 60 chips on average. It counts every card still to come and splits ties, so it answers a different question from whether you are ahead right now: a flush draw can be behind on the flop and still own 35% of the pot.

Equity is the input to most other decisions. Compare it with the price of a call and you know whether the call pays; compare it across bet sizes and you see why draws like big pots. It is not the whole story, since position and future betting matter too, but it is the number every other adjustment starts from.

Hands against ranges

At the table you rarely know your opponent's two cards. You know what they did, and that narrows them to a range: the hands a player in that seat would play that way. This calculator puts your hand against the whole range at once, weighting every combination by how often it is possible. Card removal is handled for you: an ace on the board leaves twelve combinations of AK instead of sixteen, and every cell shows how many live combos remain.

The seat presets come from the same 6-max charts as our preflop ranges: opening ranges from under the gun to the small blind, and 3-bet ranges against UTG, the cutoff and the button. Top % fills the strongest share of all hands by preflop strength, the quickest way to model a player type: someone who plays 40% of hands, or only 8%.

Reading the heat view

One equity number hides where it comes from. Switch a range to Heat and every hand in it is colored by your equity against that hand: green where you are ahead, red where you are behind, faded where it is close. On a flop you missed, it shows at a glance whether your equity comes from beating their bluffs or from drawing against their pairs, which is what decides whether to bet, call or fold.

Every next card at once

Once there is a flop, the next-card grid shows every possible turn colored by how it moves your equity, with a line saying how many cards help you, how many hurt, and which ranks are best and worst. Tap a card to deal it and the grid moves on to the river. It is the fastest way to see which runouts your hand is really hoping for, and which turns to fear when you are ahead.

Weights and solver ranges

Real ranges are rarely all or nothing. Pick a weight before painting to include a hand only some of the time: a cell painted at 50% counts half its combos. The range box reads and writes the format solvers export, so AJo:0.5 means half of the AJo combos, and you can paste a range from a solver or a chart straight in.

Frequently asked questions