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Originally Posted by Bollo
I'd find this more than reasonable; very useful in fact, as I'm sure would many others. Currently, there's no straight forward way to visualize the percentile hand strength of hands in a range. Knowing the topx% and bottomx% of our range on boards like 8c9c6c is an important and under developed skill in holdem.
Here's the problem. Having an option that shows a list of 1000 combos in order does indeed sound cool, but that's really all it is. It has no practical purpose. No one will actually scroll through that list and get anything out of it. It's already completely obvious what the nuts is on that board. And what strong hands are, and what marginal hands are, what trash is, etc. The problem here is that only a computer could possibly do anything with a list of individual combos.
Displaying such a list is a feature that looks impressive, but adds nothing. For 9c8c6c it's going to show a list that starts with dozens of (straight) flushes and ends with complete trash. People will just glance at the top of the list, realize that, indeed, flushes are best and that there's tons of them, and move on.
I've easily had 100 requests for menu items/toggles/buttons/other of comparable value. And each is similarly cool/fun/other. But the problem is that adding 100 additional options complicates the interface. When desiging an interface, sometimes choices need to be made. Your feature request is cool, but unfortunately it doesn't make the cut.
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Originally Posted by Bollo
Currently, there's no straight forward way to visualize the percentile hand strength of hands in a range.
I just wanted to give some feedback here. The human brain isn't capable of doing anything with a list of 1000 items. It's for that reason that it's often a good idea to show something in a graph, or a pie chart. Or anything like that. But just showing a list of 1000 items isn't "visualizing" anything. It's just ... a list that your brain can't do anything with. At best there's still a step missing where that data is arranged into something meaningful.
I realize that you want some way of getting an idea of how a range is composed, but a list of the individual combos does not achieve that particular goal. Typically, you should just check how often certain hand types (flushes, overpair+fd, overpair+no_fd, etc) will occur on that board. That will tell you more than any list because your brain ís capable of dealing with thát type of information.
Last edited by scylla; 06-21-2013 at 01:01 PM.