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Originally Posted by Colin252
Chip ev is only "accurate" in sng once you get to HU.
Its likely to be also informative in the first 2/3 levels as at that point the ICM effect is relively small and its hard to win a lot of chips and lose $ev. Beyond that as SeeTheMirage points out, later when ICM is THE significant factor, it's very often the case that playing a hand will concurrently have much better chip ev, and a much worse $ev than folding.
As our friend concluded - in this situation you're mad to worry about anything other than the $ev of your play.
Yeah but winning chips earlier give you a strategic advantage over smaller stacks because of ICM pressure. The stacks you have going into the bubble where ICM pressure is great are a result of how well youve run in the early stages. If you have two players with similar 6m $ev adj winrates, and one is running way above Cev 6-5 handed while the other is running way below, the latter player most likely has a higher "real" winrate, all other factors being equal.
You can get a lot of info from Cev on how good or bad you're running that the redline isnt capable of recording.
You're right that HU is the only place without ICM, but that means it's the only place where running above or below Cev doesnt artificially affect your redline.
Cliffs- Cev criminally underrated