Thank you for the heads up, folks, now I see what you are talking about.

I think I agree that this 'feature' is not really a feature. I will look at fixing this up tomorrow morning.

- bachfan

Seriously, this is the most productive thread hijack I have ever seen.

Now I'm on Steve's ****-list for maybe screwing up his feature...

Don't sweat it. There's always the Razzmaster 2000.

The "feature" is mostly useful with wider ranges anyway. Let's say you have a moderately-loose villain and you want to assign him a range: Any 3-card Seven or better and sometimes 3-card Eights. You can use a range of (8-7-6). This means that only half of his Eights are counted, which shades the range appropriately toward better hands, though not perfectly.

A better way to do it would be to make the range (8-5-6) + (5-8-6), which means he's only playing 865 or better. The other syntax allows him to play half his 876s.

Not a list you wanna be in the top 40 of, lol. Btw, I didn't mean that the tool was a fail because of this issue, but that users were often getting failed results without realizing. I'd be just as happy with a warning on the web page as changing the tool. Steve's proposed fix is the best option of all ldo.

Well, I went over my razz code this morning. That was fun. Feeling the usual mix of pride/horror at looking at old code. I have a tentative fix for the problem, but I want to get some code cleanup/optimizations done while I'm in there.

I'm on twitter.com/propokertools if you want to know when this is complete.

Thanks for your patience,
bachfan

In the process of working on this, I've come across some interesting issues around generating razz hands with the 'correct' probabilities. I'll make a separate post about it or post to my blog when my thinking on this is clearer.

My brain hurts so I'm going to take a breather - my poor family must think I'm crazy.

Thanks,
bachfan

update plz after brain swelling subsides. kthx

I am at the point where I know what I need to do with the razz simulator. Now I just need to find time to do it. In order to prevent complete brain explosion, I am likely to complete the bulk of the work on my beta -> main site migration project first, then go on to this razz issue, and then finally continue work on the downloadable simulator.

Cheers,
bachfan

Working on this right now. Should have something up tomorrow or by the end of the week at the latest.

My fix for the razz 'ordering' problem is now online. I posted about it here:

http://pokercoder.blogspot.com/2010/04/fixing-razz.html

Thanks all, for bringing this to my attention.

- bachfan, ProPokerTools dude

P.S. Sorry electrical for breaking your 'feature'.