Two tools show how equity is shared between you and your opponent in a postflop spot: who is ahead, and how the solver plays each part of the range. Both sit in the right panel as two tabs: Equity and Graph.
They live on the Range and Matrix views of a postflop spot and do not appear on preflop. On the aggregated Boards view, a Categories panel takes their place.
Open the buckets
- Build a spot in Configuring a Spot.
- Step the line to the flop, turn or river.
- Open the Range or Matrix view.
- Click Equity in the right panel.
The equity comparison at the top
At the top, both players are compared across four figures: Range %, EV, EQ and EQr. Each figure shows both sides at once on a bar that fills from each side, so the balance between the players is visible in one look.
- Range % counts the share of all possible starting hands this player still holds here, with the combo count beside it.
- EQ (equity) is a range's raw share of the pot at showdown, once the rest of the board has run out.
- EQr (equity realized) is how much of that raw equity a player captures as EV, where 100% means fully realized.
- EV is the expected value of that player's range here, the chips it wins on average, shown as each side's share of the combined EV with the raw big-blind figure beside it.
EQr does not have to equal EQ. It can land above 100% or below the raw share.
The four equity buckets
Below the comparison, each range is split into four buckets by strength: Best hands, Good hands, Weak hands and Trash hands. A hand lands in a bucket by its equity against the opponent's range: Best hands hold 100% to 75%, Good hands 75% to 50%, Weak hands 50% to 25%, and Trash hands 25% to 0%. Click How equity buckets work to see this breakdown in a tooltip.
The buckets are in a scrolling area, so you may need to scroll to see all four. Each bucket shows what share of each player's range falls into it. It also gives the solver's GTO action mix for those hands, across whichever actions the spot allows.
A Hero's strategy label sits just below the buckets, with the colour key for the two players.
Hand Categories covers the hand types.
The Equity graph
Switch to the Graph tab to see the same matchup drawn as a curve. It plots Range % along the bottom, from 0 to 100, against Equity up the side. Each range gets its own curve, and a legend gives each range's total equity.
The Equity graph: one curve per player across their whole range, with the equity each holds underneath.
The two curves let you compare how equity is spread across each range and see where one pulls ahead of the other. The graph works on postflop spots and compares two ranges only, heads-up.
It has no blocker selector and no manual buckets of its own. The bucketing lives in the Equity tab beside it.
Reading the two together
The two tabs answer one question from two angles. The graph shows who holds the equity edge across the whole range, from the total equity in its legend to the shape of each curve. The buckets break that edge into tiers of hands and give the GTO play for each.
Build the spot in Configuring a Spot. Read the range in The Range View and Syntax Search or as a grid in Split View and the Matrix View. Use the equity here to decide how hard to bet.
To read the buckets and the graph on a live spot, open this one and step to the flop.
A real spot to open
Related articles
- Reading the Numbers explains EV and the other core metrics.
- Hand Categories covers the hand types.
- The Range View and Syntax Search reads the range these buckets summarize.
- Split View and the Matrix View lays the range out on a grid.
- Aggregated Reports studies strategy across flops at once.
- Strategies Overview is the home of the solver.