Quote Originally Posted by Pants_101
So what did the pokerstove calculations tell us? I'm afraid I'm not familiar with it. For what it''s worth I pushed and he had KQo and actually beat me with a runner runner flush just to make sure
I thought you were about even with his range, or at least close enough that the dead money in the pot ($6.85) would make a push +EV. Pokerstove (an indispensable, free program: www.pokerstove.com) lets you type in your cards, a range for your opponent and any board cards and it calculates winning percentages. Martin posted that given the calling range I put your opponent on, you're a 2.43:1 underdog (70.8/29.1). Unfortunately, there's only enough dead money in the pot to give you 2.15:1 pot odds (you're pushing $5.85 and if he calls, the pot will be $12.80). So it's not a +EV push IF this is really his calling range. If his calling range is wider, then it might be a good push. For example, just including 88 in his range makes you only a 1.63:1 dog. Another variable that affects the calculation is if he might fold any of these hands, giving you some fold equity. Normally that's an important consideration and is often the reason it's +EV to push draws, but I'd tend to discount it in this calculation, given he's raised this board and will only have to call $5.85 to win $10.60.

Definitely download pokerstove and play around with it. I use it after almost every session to check whether pushes/calls I made were +EV and how different ranges for my opponents should affect my decisions.