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Why Not Pass?

Posted By: Joseph Pregler
Date: Wednesday, 19 December 2018, at 6:14 p.m.

In Response To: Why Not Pass? (Marv Porten)

While the position you posted is technically a D/P ATS, your methodology is incorrect.

Take the position below where he has 10 misses instead of 9:





White is Player 2

score: 0
pip: 1
13 point match
pip: 4
score: 0

Blue is Player 1
XGID=--B---------------------a-:0:0:1:00:0:0:0:13:10
Blue on roll, cube action?

Analyzed in Rollout No double Double/Take
Player Winning Chances: 72.22% (G:0.00% B:0.00%) 72.22% (G:0.00% B:0.00%)
Opponent Winning Chances: 27.78% (G:0.00% B:0.00%) 27.78% (G:0.00% B:0.00%)
Cubeless Equities +0.444 +0.900
Cubeful Equities
No double:+0.444 (-0.456)±0.000 (+0.444..+0.444)
Double/Take:+0.900±0.000 (+0.900..+0.900)
Double/Pass:+1.000 (+0.100)
Best Cube action: Double / Take
Rollout details
1296 Games rolled with Variance Reduction.
Moves: 3-ply, cube decisions: XG Roller
Double Decision confidence:100.0%
Take Decision confidence:100.0%
Duration: 0.2 second

eXtreme Gammon Version: 2.10, MET: Kazaross XG2

This is a clear D/T at 13a - 13a. Using your methodology however, if we run this out over 8 games, the player on roll will win on average 11.5 and the opponent will win 4.5. Let's even round up the odd game over to the underdog in this position to give a 2a - 8a score at the end of 8 games of identical positions. The 8a player has 12.56% equity based on the match equity tables. So according to your thesis, he should drop this 8 times in a row and go to 5a - 13a and have 14% Match equity. Not as great as the difference in your example, but the same concept would still apply.

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