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Originally Posted by kotkis
I was analyzing a heads-up situation pre-flop and I noticed that SB/BTN folding doesn't count towards BB's EV, so if SB is playing 100% of his hands then the total equity of the game is 15, but if he folds half of them it's only 12.5 (this is at a 5/10 blind game). Should this really work like this? I can't see any troubles that would arise from counting the dead money folded by SB as part of BB's EV and it would help overall analysis of pre-flop strategies immensly.
Hi Kotkis,
Yes it should.
The EV in StoxEV is defined as the EV
at the point of a decision.
At the particular decision point you're talking about the SB has already folded and the BB has won that money in the fold branch of the tree.
It's just not shown because there was no decision in that branch for the BB to make so I can't display that EV for him.
I could change the code so that it would do what you're describing here, but then other people may start coming to really weird decisions for the BB because extra money is added to his EV and they're not aware of it.
It would also become more difficult to work out correct decisions for the BB at his first decisionpoint because you don't know the EV of this decision.
I could of course add an option to either turn this on or off, but that would lead to people not being aware the option is on/off/exists and other problems would arise.
I'll give it some thought though. Maybe I can come up with a solution for this. Or perhaps you have a suggestion?
Cheers,
Scylla