Re: [vpFREE] Error on NSUD card

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 8:56 PM, <bjaygold@aol.com> wrote:
> Should be wild plus 567-TJQ.

duh, of course. thanks for the catch.

> Five shows the EV increase for always holding the straight4, over  always
> holding the Deuce. Can anyone calculate the EV increase for "perfect  play"
> on this type of hand, over always holding the Deuce? I'll take a wild  guess
> and say it's around .002%. Woo again! :-)

VPW gives a penalty-free strategy of always holding the wild ST4 with
789-TJQ, and never holding 567-678 with a deuce, which gets you up to
99.72611% - about 0.00025% better than frugal's suggested strategy.

it will also generate an "error report", which reveals that perfect
play is 0.00218% better than strategy play, of which 0.00024% can be
attributed to playing wild ST4's perfectly. for every 100 hours that
you play $1 NSUD, knowing those perfect rules might save you a dollar!

(personally, the next time i teach someone to play NSUD, i'm leaving
the "wild ST4" line off their chart entirely. one less thing to think
about - and be distracted by, possibly inducing errors that actually
matter - is worth 0.001% any day in my book.)

cheers,

five

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