I want to know how much it will cost me to make it make it to heads up in a tourney or cash so I need to calculate how much chips I need but the cost of the blinds prevents me from knowing exactly how much chips I need. I believe I can do it manually by subtracting (cost of blinds) from (starting stack * entrants* divided by 2) but how to calculate the cost of blinds. I guess I can do this by making a rough blind structure and estimating hands dealt per hour and then work it out manually but is there a way to do it with some kind of poker tool? So I won't have to do it manually because it can take awhile. Plus knowing this info will prevent me from making a ton of dumb mistakes with a big stack when i'm on tilt when all i have to do when I have a big stack is calculate if I have enough chips to make to heads up or cash and only play top 1% of hands

Hi dude, you're asking the wrong question. The only time this really matters is if you are an extremely shortstack on the bubble with another player who is about to bust. The way you're describing it sounds like you're trying to fold to the money any time you get a decent stack which would be a huge mistake.

Sometimes when I get a massive stack like 200bb or more i feel i can start playing too many medium hands like A7s and get into trouble when a lot of people call and i hit top pair or something and i try to push them off a draw and they get there because they call because they always think i'm bluffing because i'm the big stack. But if I know i have the amount of chips to make it heads up then i can just relax and play my top hands like ak,aa, kk qq, jj, aq,kq,kj...and just fold the flop if i don't hit. knowing this info can prevent tilt and keep my big stack big. I know how to do it now, its stack size times entrants divided by 2 plus 10% to cover the cost of blinds and this should give me a rough est.

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In single table SNGs, applying pressure with the big stack is a very good thing on the bubble and after it.
If you keep playing somewhat nitty in these spots, opponents will be quite thankful really.

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when you play against call stations and you have a massive stack big enough for heads up it might be better to play nitty and wait for everyone else to kill each other off. I had QQ and went all in one time and some guy called his entire stack with kj and he won with king on the turn, these are the guys i play with. he had like 100bb stack when he called which makes it a bad call.

Did you forget antes?

Assume the tournament maintains a 9 player table for as long as possible. Then with an ante of A and big blind of B, each round costs you 9A+1.5B if you almost always fold. The problem of course is that usually A and B are periodically increasing and the specified time for each level may also be changing periodically. Along with that complexity is the problem of not knowing how many more rounds you have to play before reaching the money so using averages of A and B is a challenge. Also, at some point 9 or approximately 9 player tables cannot be sustained.

With that in mind, if you can reasonably estimate minutes per hand or hands per hour, then the number of rounds per level is estimable and weighted averages of A and B can then be estimated. A manual calc may be doable but it won’t be easy and its goodness is questionable. I don’t know of any tool to do it.

I find that if you multiple the chip stack by the number of entrants, than divide by 2 than add 10-15ish% you should get a rough estimate to how much you need at the time of calculation. the 10-15% is for the blinds and antes and the division is for head up chip amount. This is a very rough estimate but good enough for me.