Originally Posted by mickeycrimm View Post
Originally Posted by Katch View Post
I swear I've read how to calculate the EV difference for individual strategy changes between games (either in a book or a column) but I cannot remember where. For example, if you use 9/6 JOB strategy on 8/5 BP, you can only achieve 99.16 instead of 99.17...what is the way to calculate what the strategy changes that make up the extra .01 in EV are worth? Another example would be JOB vs 10/7 DB and how much does holding AAA out of AAA55 account for, in the ~.54 difference between 99.63 and 100.17?

How do you calculate the incremental EV (either with software or by hand)?
If you don't like breaking up Aces full then don't do it. You're really not giving up anything. The freq. of flopping aces full is 9024. The full house is worth 10 units. Drawing to the aces full is worth 10.1147 units. If you divide the .1147 by 9024 you get:

.0000127105

10/7 is a 100.1725% game so subtract .0000127105 from that. You get something like 100.17248%. Keeping the full house offers a hell of a lot less variance without really losing any of the payback.
Thanks, Mickey. That math makes sense and will help me with some hand calcs. I used that JOB to DB example with the aces full because I thought that change was one that would be recognizable. I really want to be able to calculate this for some other games/strategy changes where only 2-3 different key holds make up the majority of the EV difference.

Is Frugal software available anywhere anymore or is it lost to the ether now like Wolf?