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NY Masters Cube Rollout

Posted By: Rich Munitz
Date: Saturday, 7 February 2009, at 11:33 p.m.

In Response To: NY Masters Cube Rollout (neilkaz)

Large market losers are not always a requirement. Turning the cube can not only serve to increase your own equity, but also to reduce your opponents. Scores like 4a 2a, or 8a 4a are good examples of where seemingly early doubles or redoubles are correct because they not only activate your own gammons, but also kill your opponents gammons. You can even have negative equity in these situations when doubling. The key is that by turning the cube you have less negative equity.

In this position, you are losing a lot of gammons. Redoubling and giving an essentially dead cube in an even game simply doubles the value of everything, except for your opponent's gammons due to the overage. So net gain for you. So as long as market losers exist, regardless of their size, the double could be correct. That is certainly a simplification of the situation, but it is the basic idea. Most certainly, if we could imagine that you owned a 1-cube and were contemplating redoubling to 2, it would be wrong because there is no gammon value being killed at that cube level and the cube is no longer dead.

OTB, with all this in mind, I still would have judged that the future value in holding the cube exceeded the gain from killing the opponents gammon value. But apparently that is not the case. (And of course there will be a small equity gain from the few market losers as well.)

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