The warning symbol means that it is a close decision based on the default opponent hand ranges.

The sngwiz.com web site has a forum for these types of questions.

SNG Wizard was just updated today to include an update that says "Full Tilt Compliance: Instead of shutting down when it detects that the Full Tilt client application is running, the Wizard disables the new game (manual entry) feature."

Just so everyone knows here is an email I got from FTP about the issue:

Probably in your best interest to make sure SNG Wizard is completely closed when the client is running. I don't know why this new change was made for SNG Wizard's Full Tilt Compliance. Maybe FTP will see that this is now a current feature of SNG Wiz and change their stance on the software, but I wouldn't count on it.

To be honest it's not SNGW's job to comply with full tilt's policy. The user has the decision to shut down SNG wizard before they start playing on full tilt. I see nothing wrong with leaving the decision up to the user.

I like the move. It's always annoyed me that I've got SNGW up, going through a quiz or a set of tournies, and I want to fire up the stars lobby to play some cash, or see what games are running, or just check the network connection to the server. Then wiz goes and shuts down half way through a revision session. I hope wiz make the same change to the stars shutdown "feature"

I'm not suggesting that it's the responsibility of SNG Wiz developers to police and enforce FTP's rules. I posted this thread to warn people that it is still against FTP's rules to have SNG Wiz running while the FTP client is running, despite new update to SNG Wiz appearing to suggest otherwise.

Thnx Chubber, this may help some people who might have accidently gotten an account locked down without you.

How to get sng wizard free?

I found you can get it via *** affiliate links ***, but I havent try it yet.

Any experience plz?

Usually you have to sign up on a site through an affiliate link. You can usually get something else for free instead, so it's not really free.

Using cracked poker software is a very bad idea.

here's how i got it for free (sort of). Download the demo. Its good for 30 days and its the full version. Work with the quiz and review your hh's. Easily improve you game to more than cover than cost of the software. Pay for the software. And honestly if you work with it for 30 days and don't easily pay for it, then its probably not worth buying for you.

Good advice. Sng Wizard is clearly worth it, even for a small stakes player.

I was just wondering if some fellow SNG grinders could give me some advice on what to set my edge to on SNG wiz when I review my sessions. I was just looking over a Super Turbo where it told me to fold AKs to a raise 5handed and i was like, that can't be right. I looked at it was +EV, but it had my edge for that hand set to like .13 and it was only +.07

Any words of advice on what to set it to and how to change it?

May get more responses if you post this in the STT forum.

0

Depending on buy in and what kind of edge you think that you have. Some people may argue that in earlier stages of sng's passing on smaller edge spots may be profitable because of your skill edge. Others may argue that it is never good to pass on +EV spots.

Its all about stack sizes and position. But ya i think a .07 edge 5 handed with AK is a little bit too much to pass on.

set your edge multiplier to 0 and learn where your break-even points are. once you know that, then you can adjust mentally in-game based on how much of an edge you think you want.

He would most likely get his thread locked if he posted this in the STT forum (any post that isn't a strategy post seems to get insta-locked nowadays... not sure why).

As for you question, then 0.07% isn't actually that much to pass up on (especially if it's a call which will bust/cripple you if you lose). When SNGWiz first came out it would sometimes try to use a massive "silly" edge like 0.9% (which you should basically never pass up on), but passing up on anything below 0.1% isn't really gonna make a huge difference either way tbo.

One other thing to check is that you aren't just taking the SNGWiz default ranges as gospel and that is why it's telling you to fold AKo here. I know he has recently tried to reinstate his "empirical modeling" ranges which might be too tight for real purposes (hence why it could be telling you to fold AK here). It's essential to alter the ranges to something you yourself think is sensible and then run SNGWiz using them (or else the old computer saying: "garbage in garbage out" stands true...).

When it comes to choosing an edge yourself (and not just using whatever SNGWiz says) then you want to try to consider stuff like:

A) If I bust here, how much future equity gains am I giving up? If it's a table full of loose donks then quite alot probably. If it's a table full of aggressive regs then probably not that much.

B) How likely am I gonna be able to use a big stack to pwn these players? If it's a table full of loose donks then probably not that much. If it's a table full of tight regs then it could make a big stack worth quite alot more than ICM says.

C) How sure of my opponent's ranges can I be? If you are pushing with lots of fold equity then this doesn't matter so much as most times you won't be called. On the other hand if you are calling (especially if you will bust when you lose) then you need to be very sure of your ranges to take a tiny edge. Also, since the ICM function is non-linear you also need to realize that running SNGWiz with a call range of "top 20%" won't give the same results as the average of "top 10%" and "top 30%", and against "random" players you are most often picking a range that is representative of the average you expect to face rather than what the particular player will call with.

D) etc, etc, etc (search the STT forum for the term "edge" and you'll find lots of good posts on it).

After considering each of the important factors then you can then run SNGWiz with an edge of zero and then decide yourself if you think the push is worth taking or not.

Juk

Thanks for your responses guys, I really appreciate it. I think I'm going to set the edge to 0 so I can learn the BE points and use criteria similar to what Juk mentioned to decide which small edges are worth taking. I'm a firm believer that it is NOT compulsitory to take every edge you're given in a SNG. I have excellent table selection during my sessions so I usually find it acceptable to pass on small edges since I will have larger edges later, but if I find myself stuck with a couple other regs on the bubble (happy hour is always a bitch) then I'll take the close edge for the chance to pwn the bubble.

This whole issue came up because I"m trying to learn the math perfect so I can play Super Turbos instead of normal turbos. There's like no rake, and the players are horrid, and my roll can handle the variance.

Yeah 0 works to teach you off the start.. Then when you have that mastered you can adjust in game vs tighter or looser calling ranges..

GL and hope to never play you on the tables

After looking through all the options in SNGWIZ, i still cant figure out the purpose of minimum edge option. Wouldn't you want to make a +equity push even if its only by a small amount. I can somewhat understand using this function early in a tourney, but there hardly any push spots during the beginning stages. What other situations would this function apply to?

.Q8s.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/45...ng-wiz-415542/

Thanks Yoshi. Exactly what I was looking for.

.Q8s.

I did a search and the only thread that even was in the same zip code was this:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/45...g-wizz-416683/

So I started a new thread.

Here's my question. I have several Apple computers which I play poker on. Because I use many native Apple applications when I play I can't run parallels at the same time. ( So save your breath for anyone who is going to post just to tell me to play using parallels or VM Fusion it's not really an option for me. I need to run Internet applications and mail applications in the Mac OS X environment while I play online poker.)

For the Developer. Have you ever considered porting your software over to Apple OS X? I obviously this is a smaller market than the Microsoft window/ Vista but you would probably be pleasantly surprised how many Apple people would be interested in your product if it ran on OS X.

Everyone Do you know an easy way to get hand histories into Windows running Parallels that will allow Wizard to review my play? I still occasionally play using Windows on my Mac running parallels but this is not my first choice and to be honest with you would not purchase Wizard unless I knew there was a relatively automatic easy way to do this.

My e-mail from my poker accounts goes to my OSX mail program I have absolutely no interest in having hand histories sent from the poker sites into a Windows mail program unless it can be configured to send to both.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

Does sng wizard have an option, that it randomly creates situations in which player could test his skills and develop his game? Are any other programs which have that option availabe on market?

Yes, SNG wizard has a quiz mode that is basically exactly what you're talking about. It has a 30-day trial if I'm not mistaken, so go give it a whirl

nice, ty

I have another question - how many % should i achieve in quiz mode if i plan to play 3.8$ super turbos on fulltilt. Should i set difficulty at intermediate or at easy lvl? I cannot seem to get more than 75% right on intermediate over 100hands. That is kinda bad? As i dont want to be making wrong decision every 4th time.
Whats best solution? Just to practice more?