I was browsing the STTF the other day and came across a post saying the ICM calculator site (http://sharnett.bol.ucla.edu/ICM/ICM.html) was down. I thought to myself, “Why not make an offline ICM calculator?” Well, here it is...



You can download it HERE.

I made it a stand alone .exe file, so you can run it without needing to install anything (other than the .NET 2.0 framework). It does not access the internet or do any other silly things.

Here is the down and dirty on using it:

Go! or the <Enter> key will run the calculation
Clear or <Esc> will clear the chip counts
You can use either percentages (.5, .3, .2) or dollar amounts (250, 150, 100) in the Payout.

If you would like to have a completely free, offline, no installation needed, Push/Fold calculation method, do the following:
1. Download my ICM Calculator.
2. Download Steve Brecher’s Hold'Em Showdown.
3. Read THIS OLD POST explaining how to use the two programs to determine your action.

Enjoy!
NYJ

Awesome. Thank you.

Woohoo! Happy Christmas NYJ

thanks NYJ!

Now I have one reason to like the Jets.

Very nice! Would it possible to add a few more payout spots?

and make it less ugly

Stick to the default windows colors, simple and easy on the eyes

That would be difficult.

Use recursion. All the cool people do it that way.

Unfortunately, I'm a *****ty programmer. I do it as a hobby rather than a profession. If you can send me the pseudo code to do it, I can give it a try.

I PM'ed you my code.

That is awesome. I don't know VB - but I know programming and recursion. If you need any help with the adding more payouts I'd be glad to help. I'd love to be able to do something like this for MTTs. IE - variable # of payouts up to 20 or so so you can model the final 2 tables.

I'll begin working it after X-Mas.

Thanks.

Based on your feedback, I've updated the ICM Calculator to...
<ul type="square">[*]Compute up to 10 places (A special thanks to Mark1978 and Slim Pickens for their help) [*]Added option to use Windows default color scheme[/list]

You can download the latest version from HERE.


I received a PocketPC Phone for Christmas, so I plan on porting this and other poker apps I've written to the mobile framework.

Seems to be some problems with the link. Tried to download it and the page is not coming up.

I just downloaded it without a problem. Try right-clicking the link and selecting "Save Target As" ("Save Link As" in FireFox).

thanks a lot, very good calc

Hmmm...tried it and said there were errors. Tried FireFox and it says C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.5072\mscor wks.dll could not be loaded.

You do not have the .NET Framework version 2.0 loaded. You can get it via Microsoft Update or Download from here.

surprisingly short code needed for this calculation

Thanks!!!

Yes, Mark1978 and Slim Pickens "showed me the way". I did it the hard way at first (about 150 lines of code). I enjoy doing these little projects because I learn a lot.

Does anyone know of a pocket pc ICM calculator?

I want one on my cell phone.