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Old 08-31-2007, 04:07 AM
TNixon TNixon is offline
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Default Re: A plea to omgwtfnoway (re the variance thread blowup)

After quadruple-checking my unit conversion, I realized that I did multiply the wrong way, so

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var=(10/4)(avgpot^2-1)
to achieve variance less than 202.5 the avg pot will have to be:
202.5=(10/4)(avgpot^2-1)
avgpot=9.13bb


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should really be

20250 = (10/4)(avgpot^2-1), which leads to an average pot of 90, which is exactly what I expected to see, meaning that for a 100BB $100 stack to equal the variance of a 10BB stack, with that monster winrate, he would have to be playing average pots of 90bb.

Which is basically equivalent to push-or-fold. So the result here is that if you're playing push-or-fold with $100, and your opponent plays optimally, your variance will be exactly the same whether you're sitting at a 0.5/1 table or a 5/10 table.

So, once again, your math has fallen victim to unit errors, and my math has fallen victim to my own stupidity.
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