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Fold Equity in Tournaments

Poker Helper, Feb 2007

Single table tournaments (STTs) all boil down to the same end game scenario. Play gets down to five or six handed, and everyone except for possibly one player has less than 10 big blinds (BB) left. Since only the top three places pay, players become extremely tight to place in the money. They aren’t doing much raising or calling…they just sit, wait, and hope that other players get knocked out so they can sneak into the money.

If you sit and wait like everyone else, you are putting yourself at the mercy of a crapshoot. Granted, if you get to this situation consistently, you will be a slightly profitable STT player. However, if you want to be a really good STT player, you need some additional edge. As it turns out, your big edge in these situations is fold equity, the chips that you expect to win when your opponents fold.
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