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Death Trap Score: -2/-4

Posted By: Steve Mellen
Date: Tuesday, 1 June 2010, at 1:07 a.m.

In Response To: Death Trap Score: -2/-4 (Timothy Chow)

If you breeze right by a D/T situation, and the next roll you get your opponent to take a D/P position, you haven't actually gained any equity, since in either scenario the same game is played to completion with your opponent holding the cube.

Of course, there are other things that could happen. You might overshoot your market, or you might roll poorly and be glad you didn't double. But one thing is for sure: when the position is D/T and you decline to double, you just lost equity. There are factors that might justify that sacrifice of equity, but the fact that your opponent might incorrectly take at some future point is definitely not one of them.

Messages In This Thread

• 52D-54 at -2-4
  neilkaz -- Monday, 31 May 2010, at 4:12 p.m.
  • 52D-54 at -2-4
    Nack Ballard -- Monday, 31 May 2010, at 4:51 p.m.
  • Death Trap Score: -2/-4
    Paul Weaver -- Monday, 31 May 2010, at 5:12 p.m.
    • Death Trap Score: -2/-4
      David Rockwell -- Monday, 31 May 2010, at 6:11 p.m.
      • Death Trap Score: -2/-4
        Timothy Chow -- Monday, 31 May 2010, at 6:46 p.m.
        • Death Trap Score: -2/-4
          Rich Munitz -- Monday, 31 May 2010, at 11:03 p.m.
          • Death Trap Score: -2/-4
            Matt Cohn-Geier -- Monday, 31 May 2010, at 11:47 p.m.
        • Death Trap Score: -2/-4
          Steve Mellen -- Tuesday, 1 June 2010, at 1:07 a.m.
          • Death Trap Score: -2/-4
            Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 1 June 2010, at 3:30 a.m.
            • Death Trap Score: -2/-4
              Steve Mellen -- Tuesday, 1 June 2010, at 4:14 p.m.
              • Death Trap Score: -2/-4
                Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 1 June 2010, at 8:16 p.m.
                • Death Trap Score: -2/-4
                  Steve Mellen -- Tuesday, 1 June 2010, at 8:35 p.m.
                • Death Trap Score: -2/-4
                  Daniel Murphy -- Tuesday, 1 June 2010, at 9:11 p.m.
                  • Death Trap Score: -2/-4
                    Casper van der Tak -- Tuesday, 1 June 2010, at 9:49 p.m.
                    • Death Trap Score: -2/-4
                      Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 1 June 2010, at 11:41 p.m.
                      • Death Trap Score: -2/-4
                        Matt Cohn-Geier -- Wednesday, 2 June 2010, at 12:06 a.m.
                      • Death Trap Score: -2/-4
                        Daniel Murphy -- Wednesday, 2 June 2010, at 1:32 a.m.
                        • Death Trap Score: -2/-4
                          Timothy Chow -- Wednesday, 2 June 2010, at 4:01 p.m.
      • Death Trap Score: -2/-4
        Matt Cohn-Geier -- Monday, 31 May 2010, at 11:47 p.m.
  • OTB and RO
    neilkaz -- Wednesday, 2 June 2010, at 12:38 a.m.
    • OTB and RO
      Daniel Murphy -- Wednesday, 2 June 2010, at 2:04 a.m.
      • OTB and RO
        neilkaz -- Wednesday, 2 June 2010, at 2:44 a.m.
        • Cube RO
          neilkaz -- Wednesday, 2 June 2010, at 3:22 a.m.
          • Cube RO
            Casper van der Tak -- Wednesday, 2 June 2010, at 6:19 a.m.
            • Cube RO
              Steve Mellen -- Wednesday, 2 June 2010, at 12:47 p.m.
              • Cube RO
                Casper van der Tak -- Wednesday, 2 June 2010, at 1:10 p.m.
                • Cube RO
                  neilkaz -- Wednesday, 2 June 2010, at 10:30 p.m.
                  • Cube RO
                    Casper van der Tak -- Thursday, 3 June 2010, at 7:13 a.m.