Quote Originally Posted by IowaSkinsFan
Quote Originally Posted by Renton
i don't see how our equity is at all relevant when we are going to be out of position after the flop with a hand that virtually never flops a reasonable pair.

I'd say your effective equity is rather lower than your actual equity.
Can you explain what you mean by all this?
well i guess what i'm getting at is "playability"

You might take each of the trashy hands you 3-bet preflop oop and assign them a postflop expectation. You could state that expectation in terms of the hands equity in the pot vs his range. Like, 92 suited is probably 25-32% vs most hu 3-bet calling ranges so you might guess that your expectation postflop is roughly 30% of the pot. But then you take a robust hand like T9s which probably has only a few percent more equity than 92s. But you know that T9s is going to way outperform 92s.

So you might say that T9s a somewhat higher effective equity than actual, and say the opposite of 92s. My guess is that T9s expectation is probably 1-1.25 its pot equity, and 92s is probably 0.5-0.75.