Quote Originally Posted by Extremophile
Do we ever need to calculate the EV? Isn't it enough to state "our equity to win the pot is greater than the pot odds so it is +EV" when making our decisions? It is the same math and faster.
When calling an all-in, it's simply enough to know it's +EV since your only options are calling or folding (which we assume to have an EV of 0). Other times it's not necessarily sufficient to know that something is +EV since you could have multiple +EV options and would like to pick the MOST +EV one.