Thread: Deal Calculator
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Old 06-17-2004, 11:11 PM
Bozeman Bozeman is offline
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Default Re: Deal Calculator

I'm glad someone was able to get it and run it.

The Prize$ column is the payout schedule (i.e. 1st=$500, 2nd=$300, 3rd=200).

EV is expected value of that player's stack given the distribution of stacks. (EV = sum PnFinish*Prize$)

P1Finish is the probability that that player would finish in that place in a freezeout among equal players. (This is only an approximate result, but a good approximation that yields exact results for all stacks equal as well as zero and gigantic stacks and for 1st place. It also never yields patently false results, such as greater EV than 1st place prize money, which some other methods can.)

Calculate P1 calculates P1Finish and EV for player1, while calculate all also calculates EV for all the other non-zero stacks.

The program reorders the list of stacks so that all non-zero stacks come before zero stacks, and negative stacks become zero stacks.

Craig
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