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I notice that trees where flop is all different suits tend to be much larger than flop all of same suit and flops with a FD tend to create trees right in the middle of the two in terms of size. Is that to be expected? Why would suitedness of flop affect size of the tree?
It's because Pio does optimizations based on isomorphism.
For example, if you have this flop:
As Ks 2h then 3d and 3c turns are strategically the same (assuming range preflop doesn't have biases towards a given suit which it shouldn't have).
The same goes for paired boards. For example Ts Th 2c - both Ks and Kh are strategically the same.
Unfortunately on a rainbow unpaired board every turn card is different strategically so there is no way to cut the tree.
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Okay to confirm. I use this laptop mainly to play poker and use hem2 and possibly hem3 and also programs like starscaption/888caption etc.
I am really not a hardware expert nor do I know how much RAM those programs need.
32GB is obviously better than 16GB. The question is if it's worth the money and that's the question only you can answer. My intuition is that you will not need more than 16GB for about anything unless you somehow want to solve very big trees and run other programs at the same time but then your CPU would be a bottleneck anyway.
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I always thought 32gb ram is never needed unless you do extreme things.
This is correct.
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Because anyone who uses piosolver and get computer software for it... is doing it on a desktop with at least 32gb ram minimum and that ryzen processor which is miles better than my i5-6300hq?
1)We have a lot of customers who use laptops, most of them have 16GB of RAM
2)We have a lot of customers who use desktop computers with 16GB of RAM and it's enough for even big postflop trees unless you go to extremes with bet/raise sizings
3)A lot of our customers only have 8GB of RAM and are still able to solve trees with 2-3 bet sizes at some points.
4)Desktop CPU, even something from middle of the range like 3700X is going to be several times faster than your laptop (or any other laptop). In case of 3700X it should be 3.5x-4x faster. There are CPUs on the market which are more than 10x faster than yours. I expect my new build to be more than 15x faster than your laptop for example.
5)You need a lot of RAM when using Pio for two things:
-very big postflop trees (multiple bet/raise sizes)
-preflop trees (here you need at least 64GB, 128GB is better)