[fritos]

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Frito,

Do the same calc HU w/ UTG.

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Yeah, I did. You're losing (a bit). That's likely offset by the dead money in the pot, but I don't think it maxes out our EV:

Text results appended to pokerstove.txt

6,362,921,664 games 0.005 secs 1,272,584,332,800 games/sec

Board:
Dead:

equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 49.470% 47.93% 01.54% 3049915324 97834022.00 { T9s }
Hand 1: 50.530% 48.99% 01.54% 3117338296 97834022.00 { 22+, A2s+, K2s+, Q2s+, J2s+, T2s+, 92s+, 83s+, 73s+, 63s+, 52s+, 43s, A2o+, K2o+, Q2o+, J4o+, T6o+, 96o+, 85o+, 75o+, 65o }


(disclaimer: forgot to exclude the premiums for UTG in my first calcs, so I left them in here as well)

So that prolly means I'm breaking even or maybe even a very slight fav. (because of the premiums I included). Still, what the calcs show, I guess, is that limping is better as (a) I have a bigger edge to begin with (clearly profitable vs. barely or only-because-of-the-blind-money profitable) (b) I will have a clearly defined hand that's very easy to play postflop (often...)

So, anyway, I called...