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Bluff Equity Guide

Bluff Equity and Opponent Odds Online Poker HUD

  • Bluff Equity and Opponent Odds Overlays for Online Poker

    With the Bluff Equity and Opponent Odds overlays, you can visualize how often you'll need your bluff to succeed and what pot odds your opponents will have before your bet is placed. These stats are perfect if you want to optimize your betting strategy while in-game.

  • Supported Sites for the Bluff Equity and Opponent Odds Overlays

    • Ignition Poker Ignition - Ignition, Bodog, Bovada
    • Winamax Winamax - Winamax
    • 888Poker WSOP Pacific - 888, WSOP
    • Chico Poker Chico - BetOnline, TigerGaming, SportsBetting, Pokerdom, PokerBet, Aconcagua

  • Note: We are working on adding support for the Bluff Equity and Opponent Odds overlays to more sites in the future. However, we will not be adding this to Chico because they do not allow this overlay.

Formulas

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    Bluff Equity

    Bluff Equity = (Bet Size / (Bet Size + Pot Size))

    Bluff Equity is a risk vs reward calculation. You calculate the amount risked (Bet Size) compared to the amount to win (Pot Size). Although these stats are all related, Bluff Equity is actually the inverse of Minimum Defense Frequency (MDF).

    For example, if you bet $50 into a $100 pot your Bluff Equity will be 33.4%. This means if you are bluffing, you need your opponent to fold 33.4% of the time or more for your bluff to be profitable.

    As your bet size increases, you will need folds more often to make the bluff profitable. Likewise as your bet size decreases you will need folds less often to make the bluff profitable. With IntuitiveTables, you will see your bluff equity go up and down as your bet size changes.

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    Opponent Odds

    Opponent Odds = (Amount to Call / (Amount To Call + Pot Size))

    Opponent odds are simply the Pot Odds your opponent will be getting when facing your bet. This overlay helps you visualize the pot odds you will be giving your opponent as you change your bet sizing.

    For example, if you bet $50 into a $100 pot you will give your opponent 25% (or 3:1) odds. By understanding your opponents pot odds in real-time, you can plan your sizing more strategically.

Setup Steps

  • Enable Bluff Equity, Opponent Odds Overlay

    Enable Bluff Equity, Opponent Odds overlay

    In the Overlays tab navigate to Advanced Overlays and enable the "Bluff Equity, Opponent Odds" overlay.

  • Customize the Overlay

  • Customize Overlay

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    Colors and Symbols

    The Bluff Equity and Opponent Odds overlays can be customized to fit your needs. Choose your own colors or symbols or simply leave it how we designed it for you. Here you can also choose which panels to display.

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    Colored Ranges

    You can choose what colors to display when specific numbers appear for each overlay. We have created four theme options to try out with the "Pre-Fill" button.

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    General Options

    Explore some of our general options for the Bluff Equity and Opponent Odds overlays such as hiding the overlay between hands, removing spacing between overlays, and adjusting the colored backgrounds.

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    Overlay-Specific Options

    Customize your overlays by hiding or showing the % symbol, or changing the number of decimal places. For example, here you can display Opponent Odds as a ratio (2:1) instead of a percentage (33.3%).

Troubleshooting

The Bluff Equity, Opponent Odds overlay isn't appearing.

It's possible you need to initialize (or reinitialize) your Ignition/Bodog/Bovada or Winamax client. This is a required step any time your poker client updates, or IntuitiveTables updates and you are prompted to initialize. Follow Step #1 in the Ignition Setup guide or the Winamax Setup guide.

For other sites like 888 or WSOP it's possible your client updated. First check to see if the newest version of IntuitiveTables works on the new client update, and if not contact support.

The Bluff Equity or Opponent Outs overlay is showing the wrong values.

Please use the Report Hand overlay during a hand the moment you see an incorrect value and send the diagnostics files to support.

Can I separate the overlays?

The overlays cannot be separated. They will move together and resize together. You can however put the overlay in a single row by changing the "Display panels on x columns" to 2 or 3 instead.

Note: Have any questions regarding the Bluff Equity guide? Ask in Discord or contact support@intuitivetables.com.

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