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Survivability analysis - more games

#1

I've done a quick survivability analysis of some more games including
Wynn's JOB and Deuces variants. Here's the link to a graph similar to
Jazbo's analysis: <http://www.wildlife-pix.com/vpoker/surv100.png>.
These were computed for an initial stake of 100 bets.

Taking Harry's point, here are "LD-50" values for these games accurate
to about 5 hands. Remember this is the number of hands for which the
probability of survival is 50% with an initial stake of 500 coins.

Game LD-50

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Wynn Jacks 2585
JOB 2480
APDW (Wynn)1680
10/7 DB 1320
10/6 DDB 910

I think I'll go ahead and post source code when I'm sure it's
reasonably bug free.

Mike

#2

Thanks. Input from Dunbar and Peck has been really great, in my
opinion, for supplementing Jazbo's information.

Porter's suggestions on more accurate terminolgy seems right on
target. I do like Jazbo's term survivability. Did Jazbo have a
vision of the current glut of reality TV <groan>?

Jazbo generated results using stakes of 16, 20, 80 and 320 bets,
i.e., 80, 100, 400 and 1600 coins.

Dunbar, replying to my request, furnished information for 400 and
1600 coins.

Peck did it for 500 coins.

My better half and I head for a week in LV on Sunday. I'll keep an
eye on messages over the next couple of weeks and then try to
generate a summary.

Thanks.

.....bl