Mathematics of poker

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Mathematics of poker

I'd like to start a thread that's dedicated to the book. I'm just beginning to read it and I'm far from being good at math so I already have questions after only a couple of pages. I prefer to clarify stuff that I'm not understanding well instead of reading the book faster.

It would be fun if other people that are reading the book/did read the book in the past would participate in the thread creating discussions/asking questions, etc. Sauce said this "Just don't take the book as the gospel, there are problems with it..". I think that's interesting and I'd like to know more about it once I finish reading after grasping more about the theory that's explained in there.

I've started to read Part 2 Exploitive play, and I have 2 questions.

First on page 51:
"There is just $75 in the pot. Now AK bets $30. B should call if his chance of winning the pot is greater than 30/105, or 28.5%."
Isn't it supposed to be 30/135 = 22.2%?

And they have this statement that I think, reinforce the calculation:
"In made hands vs. draw situations, the draws usually calls if it has positive equity in the pot after calling and subtracting the amount of the call", which suggest this isn't an error?

Second question on page 52:
Example 4.4
= p(A or K)() + p(other)()
= (4/41)(0) + (41/45)(8.18)
Why not 4/45?


Thanks!

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