I am working on how to adjust the nash shoving ranges in a PSKO tournament. And was wondering if you guys think my approach is sound.
Say we play a 90man PSKO far from the money. We are in the SB with 10bb and we got the BB covered (he has 9bb). Blinds are 100/50/10
The normal nash range for the SB (assuming that the BB calls nash) is that we should shove 73.5%.
Now lets assume that the BB has a single starting bounty on his head. I model this bounty by assigning it a number of additional chips (750 chips in this case).
HRC does not have an option to add additional chips. So we have to cheat a little and use the antes field for this. There are 9 players at the table and 750/9 = 83.
So i upped the ante from 10 to 93. To represent the extra virtual overlay. This is not entirely correct of course. (maybe even completely wrong?)
Now HRC gives the SB a pushing range of 100%.
What do you think of this method? Outcome is not important.
If we convert 1$ bounty to 375 chips, we should have (1970+375)*0.47*0.58, so our shove will make 102 more chips than in a normal, non pko situation.
So, if math is correct, I don't think the bounty equity is a fixed number, I think it will depend on our equity when we get called, mainly because we'll win the bounty more often with, say AA than 72o. Opinions?
- we are not looking at a single hand that we shove. but a range of hands. 22s is part of that range, but AA and T9s as well. So i think if you want to make an ev calculation. You will have to take the win odds our range has against villains calling range.
Bounty tournaments are unsolvable because of the effect of your stack over later hands - i.e. your chips also represent the opportunity to take someone else's bounties.
One interesting thought experiment:
In $5+$5 3-man tournament 50% of the prize pool is ordinary bounties, 50% to the tournament winner, BTN folds and SB and BB have collusively agreed they go all in blind against each other given the opportunity - so they do.
Ignoring the possibility they chop, is this collusive strategy good for them? What are the new dollar values of the situations of winner of the flip and the player who did not flip?
what kinda roi would you like to achieve at $5 90 sngs ?
IMO nash charts are outdated because they tell you what to push without considering your opponent's calling range , in ko tourneys they'll call lighter which affects your shoving range.
I've grinded these games for a long time and what helped me most was running spots in icmizer . went from 5.5-6bb/100 to 8.5-9bb/100 over a large sample.