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Limit Hold'em equity calculator
A free Limit Hold'em equity calculator: your two cards against known or random hands on any board, exact where possible. No sign-up needed.
Result (before the flop)
Your equity: 50.7% (±0.8 points)
| Player | Equity | Wins all | Splits |
|---|---|---|---|
| You (2h 2d) | 50.7% | 49.8% | 1.9% |
| Opponent 1 (random hand) | 49.3% | 48.3% | 1.9% |
Estimate from 15,000 random deals of the unknown cards: the true equity is within ±0.8 percentage points of this number 95% of the time. The same cards always give the same estimate. Equity = your average share of the pot if every card is dealt and nobody folds. "Splits" = deals where you win part of the pot.
Solver tip (heads-up, limit betting)
You act first (small blind) before the flop, you on the button. PokerToast's trained solver plays: raise 98%, call 2%, fold 1%.
What each play is worth from here, in chips at 20/40, compared with folding (0): raise +10.3, call +7.1, fold +0.
What the tip assumes: heads-up limit betting; a typical pot of 1.5 small bets before this street (every earlier street bet once and called); your first decision on this street. The solver groups similar hands, so its advice is for your hand's group; it does not use dead cards or your opponent's cards. Free tips: 3 a day per address. For other betting lines, open the Calculator's Solver tab on PokerToast.
Example
Ace-King of hearts against a pair of Queens before the flop: 46.3% equity (estimate from 60,000 random deals, ±0.4 points). Open this example
Limit Hold'em equity: the basics
Equity is the share of the pot you would win on average if all the remaining cards were dealt and nobody folded.
In limit Hold'em the pot is often large compared with one bet, so the price of a call is what matters: if calling one bet would make the pot 6 bets in total, you need more than 1 in 6 (about 17%) equity for the call to pay on its own, before counting later bets.
Leave an opponent's cards empty to deal them a random hand. Real opponents don't hold random hands, so for ranges use the full Calculator on PokerToast.
How this calculator works
- It uses the same hand rules as PokerToast's Bot Lab and Research Calculator; automated tests check that it ranks hands exactly like the site's main hand evaluator.
- When the unknown cards can be dealt in few enough ways, it checks every one of them and the answer is exact. Otherwise it deals them at random many times and shows an estimate with its margin of error.
- Opponents' unknown cards are dealt at random (any hand), not from a guessed range. Ranges, street-by-street equity and solver advice for every betting line are in the full Calculator on PokerToast.
- For a heads-up spot you also get one tip from PokerToast's own limit Limit Hold'em solver, when it is loaded and has learned the spot.
Go further
A free PokerToast account opens the Research Calculator (ranges and every hand an opponent could hold) and the Bot Lab, where you play against bots and see what the solver would do.
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