Quote Originally Posted by Mr. Bucket View Post
First of all thanks for your comment, i am sorry if i didn't know this spot was trivial, but i am very new to poker(started playing online a couple weeks ago) I was unaware that this was a standard iso pre and i needed to hear it was against this short villain.

As far as post flop, you are also asserting that we have no fold equity. If this is true i highly doubt we have <50% equity. The villains range could have tens, jacks, and queens, sure, but i believe he may also have 9s and king highs and ace highs, with the range weighted more heavily towards aces and kings due to the fact that he called my isolation.

look at this stove:

Hand 0: 50.865% 45.34% 05.53% 350549 42732.00 { Ad9s }
Hand 1: 49.135% 43.61% 05.53% 337177 42732.00 { 88+, A2s+, K2s+, Q2s+, J2s+, T2s+, 92s+, A2o+, K2o+, Q2o+, J2o+, T2o+, 92o+, 82o+ }

To be honest i have NO IDEA what range to assign here. I gave him any straight draw or pair and we have > than 50% equity, but is that a decent range? What would us having 50% equity mean? would you fold this hand at any point? i think our ace high might be good enough to check down even if we call and blank turn/ river. If this is true why are we even calling?

Also i read that most players big leaks are most visible in the small pots they play. This kind of hand may not get posted often, but that does not mean it is not of value, i have already learned plenty, and clearly some of the other posters on this would do well to do the same.
there's no need to apologise. we're all here to learn. i would preface everything i say with "this is just my opinion and i don't necessarily think i am right", but i just assume everything i say is read as such and so don't bother. i think you make some good points there, namely:

- that no pot is too small for consideration (through its simplicity this one actually highlights some important things about how equity, fold equity, and stack-sizes relate to Expected Value)
- that if we have 0% fold equity (ie he cbets 100% of his range and never folds any) on this flop, we are likely to have 50% or more equity on this flop simply because he had so much shit in his range pre (low/middle suited/offuit connectors/one, two gappers etc).

you said something about "what would 50% equity mean?", basically we need to have 50% or greater equity against our opponent's calling range for a value bet or raise to be +EV. it doesnt really matter much in this spot however because villain doesn't have enough money in his stack to not give us adequate pot odds to get all-in. as you said, it's hard to determine villain's precise range or our equity against it because it's so wide. we may be actually be ahead, the point is that the the stack-to-pot-ratio (SPR) is so small that we can never fold. i probably just shove tbh here because it's a trivial spot and it saves me an extra click (potential misclick-fold) on the turn.

hope some of that makes sense