I've tried a simple push fold game using CardRunnersEv to show some effect as crev does handle card bunching/removal effects. This is only a simple 10bb game but it may throw just a little light on how much an effect there may be.
I used HRC to give approximate NASH ranges for 9 handed all 10010 chip stacks, bb=100 ante=10 game.
I plugged the 9 handed open push ranges given by HRC exactly as is into CREV (Note, the HRC ranges are not perfect nash as this tool like most others doesn't take card removal into effect.)
In CREV if an early player pushes eg, utg pushes 14.7%, then in the CREV tree I just fold all the remaining players to keep the tree small(ish). It is only the open push SB vs BB part of the tree that is needed for this. (This is actually an 11.1% event, ie, 88.9% the earlier players wake up with something using these ranges.)
Here is an image of the result:
The left part is the SB result from HRC chip ev (all 9 players 1010 chips, bb 100, ante 10).
The middle and right are SB and BB respectively if I put all the utg to BB ranges into crev and do 30,000,000 sims.
Clearly if card removal is used but all ranges stay exactly the same it would be better for SB to tighten up and not push the bottom T6s to T2s etc that HRC recommends and the BB should not call a couple of the weakest hands like T7s,97s.
Although it seems that SB has to tighten up a little more than the BB does I think to get to equilibrium the SB probably has to tighten up approx half of the -ve hands shown and then BB would also have to tighten a few extra that may show up as just positive here. If the SB push tightens then the BB has to call tighter, but a tighter BB call allows a wider SB shove. I don't really know the true Nash freqs
Even adjusted as mentioned above it is still not NASH as the utg to Btn hands have been left to the opening frequencies calculated by HRC.
If the above is correct it seems like both SB and BB have to tighten in this approximation. Also you can see that the high hands do earn more chips.
eg, for SB, AKo is 327 chips in HRC image (note this is given in bb) whereas when adjusted for utg to Btn opening frequencies it is worth 357 chips the SB shown is the middle part of the image)
Last edited by BaseMetal2; 03-13-2019 at 05:07 PM.