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If my opponent has a 2 and 5 position and throws the cube at me, do I take? Well, I do if it is exactly a 2 and 5 position that he has, and also if my position is at least 2 and 5 as well. The reason is this: although he has better than a 5-– chance of winning, there is still the factor of 3 to 1 odds working for me. So, although there are nineteen ways out of thirty-six for me to lose one dollar, there are seventeen ways out of thirty-six for me to stay alive and then have at least a 50–50 chance to win three. Therefore, the odds paradoxically are with me to accept.

Rollout  Tom Keith 2013

Money play Centered cube Black on roll 1296 games with VR Checker play: 3-ply Cube play: XG Roller

XGID=--A--A--------------a--a--:0:0:1:00:0:0:0:0

Cube Action			Game	G	BG		Equity
No double		W L	.7493 .2507	.0000 .0000	.0000 .0000		+0.4753	(0.4753)
Double	Take	W L	.7493 .2507	.0000 .0000	.0000 .0000	+0.9506	+0.9506
	Drop					+1.0000

  Black should double and White should take  

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Backgammon for Blood (1974), by Bruce Becker