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yeah, i aggree these solutions are > than snowie. But when i talk to others, they say they don't care, snowie is good enough, faster and easier to use. And that that the time investment isn't worth the time lost playing.
Well I can definitely see how some people think that but correct information obtained slower is better than more/faster disinformation.
We could write an AI tool which would be even quite good but that's not really what we want to do. We want to provide great tool for understanding optimal play, HH analysis and just learning to play. At this point this is actually practical.
It's quite possible that we will solve whole games in near future (like HU CAP is achievable right now, just not our priority). Maybe then we will just serve those solutions from the cloud.
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For a human I'm not sure there is much benefit to having fast solutions (even though it's impressive!), because already going over a couple a day is exhausting and time consuming.
Well... so say you go through scenarios in CREV or in some elaborate equity calculator. Not only it costs you more time but you get some slice of information which you can't really use practically or learn much from it. Even with Snowie input scenario feature it's comparable time, especially bearing in mind that PioSOLVER shows you the whole range/EV for every action and in other case you get "advice" you have no way of assessing. I mean they can feed you w/e and you just have to believe it.
I mean you could really learn to play using this. This is first tool which can answer questions about how to build your range in different spots, what are the best bluffing hands, best bluff catchers. This information wasn't available before anywhere. You could watch a training video with someone going for an hour about vague theoretical concept or you can fire-up a solution and see the whole GTO in 5 minutes. I agree it's not for everybody and certainly not for "volume over all" players but I think it's practical enough.
I can definitely see adding features for making the process even easier though (like importing HH's etc).
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I read in one of your posts that you had done some preflop stuff? I didn't think that was possible. Any plans to share taht?
Solving the whole preflop game is few months away probably but you can already do a lot of things like calculating preflop ranges (you fire up the solver for 500-800 flops for little , see what hands make money, adjust, repeat). That is not yet available in public release though (unless you are willing to write scripts).
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Are Snowie's solutions even close to nash?
They backtracked those claims and they make it hard to verify anything by not providing strategies/frequencies for whole ranges (so even verifying simple river spot takes a lot of clicking). They have an AI good enough to not fold nuts and look reasonable a lot of the times. That's as much as I can say.