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chubukovSymmetricJamBreakevenStack

Toy symmetric jam breakeven stack from dead money and equity (toy HU).

chubukovSymmetricJamBreakevenStack(deadMoneyChips: number, equity: number): number

Import​

const poker = require('poker-calculations');

ESM (Node):

import { createRequire } from 'module';
const require = createRequire(import.meta.url);
const poker = require('poker-calculations');

When to use​

In the symmetric jam toy, find the stack depth where jamming is neutral given blinds/antes as dead money and your jam equity. equity > 0.5 returns Infinity (jam always +EV in this toy); equity < 0.5 uses S = equity·dead/(1−2·equity).

How to use​

const dead = 150; // blinds posted
const equity = 0.48;

const breakevenStack = poker.chubukovSymmetricJamBreakevenStack(dead, equity);
console.log('breakeven jam stack:', breakevenStack);

console.log(poker.chubukovSymmetricJamEv(breakevenStack, dead, equity)); // ~0

See also​

chubukovSymmetricJamEv · chubukovMaxSymmetricJamStackChipsBinarySearch