More about DOLLAR EV$ mode.
Poker players mostly care about $ in the end. ICM and stuff is good, but we need to win $ not ICM equity. Also I believe min diff% is a little difficult for new players to grasp at times (saw too much threads where they don't understand this concept). Some think of it as an "edge" we got against opposition or other weird interpretations.
In reality definition is simple, its amount of $ we win in current hand if we push, compared to folding alternative, simple as that. So I am introducing $EV mode display which helps with that greatly. In this mode you need to specify your tournament prizepool $ first. Then you choose number of $ you want to make by pushing, compared to folding and select
min $EV diff value to lets say 0.25$ in a hand in some medium stake game.
Then ICMIZER will compute hands that satisfy that condition and will display results in actual dollars.
Currently it looks like this:
Notice that Charts and player details also show up dollar values.
$EV mode is especially useful for MTTs where edge% is difficult to choose because its hard to say how much actual $ is this 0.02% diff worth (total tournament prizepool can be hard to infer from stacks sum and even multiplication can be not so easy).
So I recommend $EV mode for MTT hands. Notice that if you are creating a MTT payout structure using $ amounts, PrizePool is inherited from this tourney structure automatically once you switch to output to ICM $EV mode, which should be useful, as you will not have to input it again.
Q
Last edited by Q; 10-11-2011 at 03:53 AM.