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Originally Posted by ToiletBowler
So the evaluation isn't a measure of how well i am doing against Snowie, but a measure of how well i'm doing against the agents it played against?
Kind of. The EV numbers are how it decides upon the best play. If you make decisions that - according to Snowie - have a lower EV than other options, it will mark them as errors. When the pot is big, what Snowie calls "blunders" are more common. e.g. If the pot is 50bb on the river, and calling is worth 30bb, but raising is worth 35bb, then calling is a significant blunder, since you missed out on 5bb of EV. It's impossible to make a 5bb blunder
pre-flop unless you do something really stupid like folding AA or you open jam 32o. Most pre-flop decisions will be measured in fractions of big blinds. Those pre-flop decisions are still very important though, but errors get compounded across the streets. It's just that with Snowie's scoring system (the "error rate" number), it will be the big pots that have the greatest effect. (You can get a very good/low error rate by playing as a massive nit that just avoids playing big pots).
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Originally Posted by ToiletBowler
So potentially I could have a positive winrate vs the machine but be rated as a "beginner". Now i know this is possible even if EV was calculated against Snowie's actual complete ranges (since you'll need to deviate from Snowie to beat Snowie).
You can play
exactly like Snowie and still win (or lose). There's this thing called "luck".
When the bots are playing each other, using identical strategies, half of them win and half lose, natch. FWIW, I did over 25,000 hands of training with Snowie and somehow beat it without trying to actively exploit it. I think I just ran well.
While it's nice to have a "winning session" vs Snowie, you should ignore the $ amounts and focus instead on the errors, blunders and balancing frequencies, if you're trying to learn how to play like the bots. The $ amounts are obviously subject to variance. (e.g. Maybe you get lucky and Snowie spews off with air when you have the nuts, but it only makes that play 1% of the time in the long run).