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Originally Posted by Nerstow
This might be outside the scope of this thread but I'm looking at node locking certain strategies to simplify things and avoid mixed frequencies in most spots. Obviously my ev goes down, but is there any kind of guide as to how much is acceptable? Or a link anywhere that talks about this?
For instance I locked some hand type strategies on one sim and my ev went from 45 to 40. Not sure if this is acceptable for simplifying things since I'm not going to use mixed strategies perfectly anyways, or if that is way too much ev to give away.
Generally I would recommend not focussing too much on the values of individual hands, but rather to look at the distributions in the hand types (top pair, middle pair, set, etc) and try to find patterns there. Memorizing individual hands is not an achievable goal, whereas figuring out the reason why certain strategies are chosen is far more instructive and applicable in real life situations. So for example if the board is slightly different, or the ranges are slighltly different, then having memorized what to do with individual hands will probably not be very useful, given that they will now be different. However, general strategies for what to do in certain spots should remain the same.
That being said, I can't give an answer to the question of how much drop in ev would be acceptable. Dropping from 45 to 40 seems to be roughly the maximum that would be acceptable, given that for example dropping to 35 from 45 would clearly be too much.
Last edited by scylla; 06-25-2019 at 02:23 PM.