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Originally Posted by punter11235
I am not sure what you are asking. We are of course taking card removal into account when solving, calculating equity or EV. I can't imagine doing it without taking card removal into account as it's such a fundamental part of poker and influences solutions in great deal.
I asked if PIO is counting on card removal effect. I know it sounds like a stupid question but I wanted to make sure.. Here is why I ask this question.
I use PIO preflop sims for BB defense, and I strongly believe it is best solver/program for this job and got lots of experience with program.
I compared results with other solvers, like monker for example.
Both give almost same outputs and I found PIO outputs to be more accurate.
Only with 1 exception..
PIO doesnt slow play AA at all for 15-20bb stacks, only against very tight ranges... (spot: AA, big blind, we have 18bb stack vs 2bb open) Which makes a lot of sense to me for equilibrium strategy and I also dont like slow playing.
On the other hand Monker slow plays it even vs a widest range..
I was quite surprised by this, becuase i get almost exactly same outputs from both solvers, they play all range matrix almost same way, but only for AA, there is a significant difference. And i am told by couple of sources, PIO doesnt count on card removal, a statement didnt make much sense to me too.
This is generaly a big pattern for other solvers btw, whenever the only option for 3betting is all in, they almost always slow play AA, but PIO doesnt.
Do you have any idea about what could be reasons for this ?
I dont have much experience with programming languages but i cant imagine it can be a glitch in the code or sth, as it would show problems in many other spots too.