Street-by-Street Poker EV Graphs with SECT
Posted on Nov 05, 2009 by Gugel in Variance
SECT: Showdown Equity CalculaTor
Let’s say you have AA on the button with 100bb stacks. You misclick and accidentally raise to 99bb. Villain, a crazy billionaire railroad tycoon, has 27 offsuit and decides to call. The flop comes 222 and the pot is 198bb. Villain shoves his last 1bb and you obviously call.
HEM and PTR will calculate your EV only when you go all-in. In other words, you have 0.1% equity on the flop (when you went all-in) and that translates to about 0.2bb in EV. That is obviously painting a very distorted picture…
But that’s where SECT comes in. It calculates EV street-by-street. So in other words, 99bb went in when you had 88% equity and 1bb went in when you had 0.1% equity. SECT will report your EV as 174bb (a much more accurate representation of what’s happening).
SECT only works for cash game hands and it reads off an HEM database (sorry PTR folks, you’re out of luck).
To install:
- Download the latest Java update.
- Download SECT
- Uncompress the .rar file (you might need Winrar)
- Edit the XML file in notepad (see steps 5 7)
- Replace “HoldEmManger” with the name of your database
- Replace “postgres” by your postresql login
- Replace “postrepass” by your postresql password
- Run SECT_v3.2.7.jar
Forgot the name of your database or your login information? Here’s how you can find it in HEM.
HEM Database Information
In the example above, my database name is 2008. Youll see your Login name and Password once you click on Database Management.
Props to Pprofesseur and Victor118, the two French poker players who developed SECT.
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12 Responses to Street-by-Street Poker EV Graphs with SECT
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malfaire
05. Nov, 2009
cool stuff, thanks gugel!
The Poker Meister
06. Nov, 2009
Interesting this is what Ive been looking for I had planned on writing this software street by street luck factor. I didnt because in the end, what does it prove? That youre lucky or unlucky. The thing is: who cares? Did you play the street correctly is a more subjective question, but thats what you want to be sure of. However, if this does PT3, it is definitely a worthy tool, similar to Holdem Luck.
Thanks, Gugel!
hanzo
07. Nov, 2009
//offtopic
great site, keep up them good posts. (sun-tzu was no1)
hu sng player
spyk
07. Nov, 2009
Hope there is something wrong with the calculations, as it shows me running really bad for ever!
Anyone having positive results?
Abaddon
16. Nov, 2009
Why doesnt it work with PT3 ;(
Lain
16. Nov, 2009
>>Hope there is something wrong with the calculations, as it shows me running really bad for ever!
>>Anyone having positive results?
Not me. Shows me running about 30 buyins under expectation over 35k hands.
Inesis
19. Nov, 2009
Greath tool, thnxs
Dan
28. Nov, 2009
I cant get the graph to show anything. Ive checked and double checked the login and db name top no avail any ideas what could be wrong?
BOO-YA
02. Dec, 2009
it says you play bad if you tend to chase draws for implied odds against nits.
Peter
02. Dec, 2009
Does this work for omaha? Cant seem to get it running but maybe its an NLHE tool only?
Gugel
02. Dec, 2009
Yup, I think its just for NLHE.
Greg
07. Jan, 2010
Does this also work for Omaha?