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Match Equity 101
Posted By: Matt Cohn-Geier In Response To: Match Equity 101 (Max Urban)
Date: Monday, 5 October 2009, at 4:29 p.m.
Here is my approach. I am not claiming it is the best one, it was just the easiest one for me.
- I started by memorizing a MET for 5-point matches, because that is what I was playing at the time (in Madison). This was not terribly difficult but it didn't do me a whole lot of good by itself. However since I have found that 5- or 7-point matches are essentially the basis for longer match play.
- I came to understand how one could work out a takepoint and a givepoint from a MET. Now the numbers actually did me some good. I still don't really understand how to work out GVs but probably I could with a little practice.
- I memorized Neil's #s for longer matches since memorizing the rest of the table was more or less impossible. I have since switched to John's version of Neil's #s which are quite accurate. I review this part once in awhile because I often forget it, probably because it only rarely ever comes up. It doesn't take long to review but it doesn't really help much.
- I started playing around with GNU's market window and positions at different scores, memorizing GVs, memorizing "raw" takepoints on 4 cubes or 8 cubes (2 cubes are real easy), looking at how takepoints change with lower and higher % of gammons, trying to understand positions and recube vig, etc. This is what I currently work on when I am trying to prepare for match play.
You might think it is difficult to memorize a bunch of stuff but in my experience it turns out to be several orders of magnitude easier than trying to work it out mathematically OTB. But to each his own.
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