PS After I wrote my previous post HGP came up with another odd result. I had misplayed it preflop (so true!
) but on the flop it suggested raising. My thought was WTF? (or simlar). I re-ran it and suddenly it said call was "correct" by 25% of the pot. A couple of other re-runs gave similar big +EV results for just calling. Then it said I should raise again - back to call etc. etc.
What I would like to be able to do is to get longer runs for POST play analysis without needing to do this manually.
I understand this AI has a lot of processing to do, so, if it is supposed to be an
immediate post hand critic, it has to reduce the number of trials to a relatively small number.
However, in the calm of the following day when a more experienced player may be interested in whether his game has a few leaks he should be thinking about, the output is sometimes incorrect based on the small sample run. Not only does it throw up "mistakes/deviations" that are not present over longer runs but the short run may also fail to find problems that
would exist over a longer one so we never even know it was there.
It would be useful to be able to ask HGP to re-run ALL of our hands that are filtered for analysis but to allow it to run many more cycles (choice made by the user depending on the time available to THEM) so that its results are based more on a long term basis and are more reliable.
Alternatively if time was a little more pressing for the user, we could ask HGP NOT to re-run hands that were so "certain" over the initial smaller run performed on import that a re-run would be most unlikely to change its opinion.
These choices of a) number of cycles b) probability of initial run being correct would allow users to only see results that we were pretty sure were likely to be useful rather than have a look and say WTF?
and then need to re-run the hand several times manually to see what an "average" result looks like.
I cannot imagine implementing this would be difficult for post play analysis; but what do I know?
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