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A Kelly Strategy Calculator

Started by Bally6354, August 18, 2013, 06:11:04 PM

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Bally6354

Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.

Bally6354

This calculator is ok.

But remember.......

Underbetting is far preferred to overbetting. So perhaps use a 1/2 Kelly and see how the variance goes.

There is some good info at the bottom of the calculator.
Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.

Bally6354

I was just thinking about the Kelly criterion in relation to roulette and does it not just show what a lethal combination progressions and the house edge really are. The Risk of ruin getting larger with every losing step.

It's probably not something a lot of us give any thought to when designing methods of play. But just a basic understanding of some of this stuff does make you look at things from a different perspective.

cheers
Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.

Priyanka

I thought if we use Kelly criterion, it will just advice not to place any bets on roulette. Is it not true?

Bayes

Yanks,


That's correct. If you assume that roulette is a negative expectation game, then Kelly will recommend no bet. Alternatively, you can take a purely empirical approach, so make no assumptions (forget that you know about the negative expectation), then calculate the probability and expectation from your data, and calculate your edge from that.