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Originally Posted by Chadox78
Thanks Q,
I appreciate the help. I tried again to do an ICM calculation. I hope you can see the image. Basically I had 4BB and was UTG 8 handed. There was 40 left and 36 paid. So instead of making a custom tourney, I just got as close as i could with the 180 on PokerStars. The payouts are only 27 so I made it 31 left to have same amount of spots till making the money.
I shoved KTo but got knocked out. I did the calc and it says just a bit too loose. Can you tell me if this looks good.
Also, since this is the Nash Equilibrium range, should I always be shoving the whole range or should I consider folding the break/even and other weaker hands in the range?
I will try to paste below. Thanks again for the help
[IMG]https://www.icmpoker.com/screenshot/Errrtm
Hi Chadox78
Generally, I recommend recreating the actual situation when possible so the results are as close as they can possibly be.
So in this case it would be better if you actually created a new tournament and entered the 40 left with 36 paid.
However your approximate approach also works and should give an idea.
Yes, I managed to open the screenshot:
The approximate approach works if all approximations are taken care of.
In your case you didn't adjust the total sum of chips so it stayed at 270000, but should've been higher.
With 270000 your table ended up having >1/3 of total chips meaning that all stacks are quite big. In reality though the average stack at the table is 13000 so the approximate number of remaining chips should be greater than 400000 and it makes stacks at our table relatively smaller.
So here is how I'd do the approximate approach:
And the Nash/Calculation result for you:
Regarding min EV diff for MTT, I recommend anything green, so even +0.00% at times make sense, although zeros can be folded.
+0.01% in MTT often is huge in terms of ROI and usually shouldn't be missed.
Also I strongly recommend to make manual adjustments to Nash solution and then to calculate in order to get best results.
Since real world players rarely follow Nash these adjustments are often key getting best results out of ICMIZER in order to find most exploitative strategies.