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luck's size

Posted By: Maik Stiebler
Date: Wednesday, 22 February 2017, at 9:08 p.m.

In Response To: luck's size (Florin Popa)

Could be due to the gammon value. It is quite large at some 2-away scores with centered cube. If the gammon value was 1.7/2=0.85 instead of the usual 0.5 it would explain your observations perfectly. What was the score exactly?

Also, a major term you seem to be missing - though it doesn't matter in the particular situation you describe - comes from giving any cube that is taken by the opponent. Such a double almost always reduces the emg equity by quite a bit (due to the change in cube ownership and rescaling) and therefore should be counted as a weird contribution to equity loss in your equation, even when the double is perfectly correct.

A third thing to be aware of is that games at uneven scores may start at an emg equity quite different from zero. That may also be relevant in your example.

Messages In This Thread

• luck's size
  Florin Popa -- Wednesday, 22 February 2017, at 7:52 p.m.
  • luck's size
    Maik Stiebler -- Wednesday, 22 February 2017, at 9:08 p.m.
    • luck's size
      Florin Popa -- Wednesday, 22 February 2017, at 11:42 p.m.
      • luck's size
        Maik Stiebler -- Thursday, 23 February 2017, at 7:27 a.m.
        • luck's size
          Florin Popa -- Thursday, 23 February 2017, at 12:07 p.m.
          • luck's size
            Maik Stiebler -- Thursday, 23 February 2017, at 1:36 p.m.
            • luck's size
              Florin Popa -- Thursday, 23 February 2017, at 2:06 p.m.
              • luck's size
                Maik Stiebler -- Thursday, 23 February 2017, at 3:56 p.m.
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    Florin Popa -- Wednesday, 22 February 2017, at 11:54 p.m.