I've not played a lot of HE cash so I struggle - I don't see why it should always be accepted or refused or indeed why it would indicate collusion. Ultimately you're just reducing variance and getting closer to your true EV reward. Ultimately if you're colluding with someone, in the shared bankroll sense, then there's no need to worry about the double-run since you're gonna carve it up anyway, except if you're not deep-pocketed.
However, the reduced volatility certainly makes the soft-play set-up appealing, as Simon is suggesting. One of the downsides, I would guess, is that you might feel you're the guy whose always getting the worst of it - from a pure luck perspective. By double-running it's naturally going to even out more.
On the tournament side, obviously, an implicit soft-playing agreement is absolutely correct in many instances. Because, quite simly, two players can put their chips in HU and both be -EV.
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Re: Running it through twice
Date: 2006-02-27 09:23 pm (UTC)However, the reduced volatility certainly makes the soft-play set-up appealing, as Simon is suggesting. One of the downsides, I would guess, is that you might feel you're the guy whose always getting the worst of it - from a pure luck perspective. By double-running it's naturally going to even out more.
On the tournament side, obviously, an implicit soft-playing agreement is absolutely correct in many instances. Because, quite simly, two players can put their chips in HU and both be -EV.