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Originally Posted by alon.albert
No, that's not possible. For ICM calculations, you need to know about all remaining players and their chip stacks. You don't have that in multi table games. It might be possible to detect it's a final table and do it for these but maybe I'll try that later on.
There was some investigation into how best to approximate the stacks of the unknown players in
this thread. I'm not sure if there will be enough information stored in the PT3 DB to be able to work it out though (ie: out how many players entered the MTT, the total # of chips in play, the prize structure, etc).
If there is the required information available, then it appears that evenly sharing out all unaccounted for chips amongst the remaining unknown players gives a pretty good approximation of ICM (much better than just using cEV for non-final table equities). It also has added advantage that you would only have to compute the equity for a single unknown player and can then reuse it over and over again (as opposed to Slim Picken's idea of mirroring the current known table). Since the ICM model is O(n!) it might still be too much computation though; even with the equal-stacks assumption/speed-up.
Juk