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Originally Posted by Maradona10
Why can you only select PP Below Top Card? I would like if you add a checkbox for "PP Below board"
First, the existing stat you mention, PocketPairBelowTopCard is only available in the Mac (Expert) version of this app, but this is the PokerCruncher-iOS (Advanced version) thread.
Because there are probably hundreds of stats and stat combinations that one could think of adding, but there's space for only a few dozen even on a Mac, so I picked what I thought are the important stats. But if one or two more good stats come up, I'll add them, as I have over the years.
In this case I believe your suggested stat PPBelowBoard wouldn't be as good/useful as for example the existing PPBelowTopCard stat. Just about all of the existing stats are hand types or draws or combination draws that a player would think about continuing with on the flop or turn. When you turn on the checkboxes of the stats you're interested in, you get a TotalHit %age at the bottom, which is the %age of the time the player's range hits the board. And you can use the new "Filter" button to filter the range further based on the checkboxes (Mac-Expert version).
The existing PPBelowTopCard stat is an important distinction over OverPair and TopPair and OnePair because e.g. if you have 99 and the flop is Ten high garbage, you'd most probably continue with your 99, as it's too early to give up yet on the hand (and you're ahead anyway a good percentage of the time). And just for curiosity value it's interesting to see how often a pocket pair has one overcard flopped on it.
I don't think the same can be said about PPBelowBoard. If a player is going to continue with PPBelowBoard, then he'll continue with any OnePair, so then can use or look at just the hit OnePair stat. If you're trying to figure out the odds for a weak pair in general, (OnePair - OverPair - TopPair - PPBelowTopCard) would give a good estimate.
So I don't yet see good use-cases for PPBelowBoard. Can you describe how you would use this stat? It may be a good stat to add anyway just theoretically or for curiosity value; if have an OverPair stat why not have an UnderPair stat. But I lean against it right now because there's space for only so many stats and we have to prioritize.
Thanks, -RJ
Last edited by rj999; 11-11-2015 at 02:59 PM.
Reason: Added note on the new filter range feature in Mac-Expert version.