Confusion regarding pot-odds and equity

pot odds is related to money you have to enter into the pot.
equity is related to cards (your AK against opponent cards)

hi, the video explanation is right. it might not look intuitive, but you should count hero's 100 (instead of 12).

something for you to think about... 500BB effective stacks, you have AA in bb, everyone folds to sb who open shoves.
do you really need over 99% equity to make the call? you don't have that even against 72o, so where is the mistake?

hint: you never-ever need over 50% equity to make a call that guarantees you seeing a showdown for no further cost. (ie, calling an AI for all your chips)

Thanks for replying dragan2171 and Tomaloc

Umm it make sense, let me explain my thought now see if it is correct.

if SB shove for 500BB, I will need to call 500 to win the SB's 500.
Laying me exactly 1:1, that mean I need to win 1 out of 2 times.
So in equity saying, I need to win at least 50% to make the call profitable.
I was wrongly calculated the equity as 100%/1 = 100%, which is absurd.

The above scenario is the maximum amount of equity I needed to make a call profitable, because normally there are some other money in the pot, which it makes at least something more than 1 to 1 odds. (like 1.2:1, 3:1, 5:1)

Like in the video, the I am getting ~1.32:1 odds, then I need to win 1 out of 2.32 times. Therefore, I should divide 100% to 2.32 to get 43%.
The mistake that I made when I was calculating equity was to assume I need to win 1 out of 1.32 times, which yield 75%.

It totally make sense to calculate it this way.
I think I was confused about the meaning of equity. I thought equity is telling how much money I am expected to gain in relation to my call. But rather equity is telling how much I money I am expected to gain in relation to the whole pot.

I think I get it now, thanks!

Thanks guys

Originally posted by Tomaloc

hint: you never-ever need over 50% equity to make a call that guarantees you seeing a showdown for no further cost. (ie, calling an AI for all your chips)

Add some extreme ICM tax and that never-ever turns into almost-never

Oh odds confused me big time as well long time ago. Thanks for the help everyone