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07-17-2023 , 05:45 AM

oldgoat

old hand

Join Date: Feb 2015 Posts: 1,972

Hi
Can anyone suggest good resources for making adjustments from standard tournaments - I know the basics like converting bounties to chips in all in situations but I'm struggling on adjusting ranges / reading other peoples ranges/ how it affects ICM

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07-17-2023 , 10:35 AM

ojsimpson32

centurion

Join Date: Feb 2021 Posts: 151

The GTO Wizard MTT subscription has ICM for both regular and PKO tournies (although they say these are going to be separate subscriptions in near future), so I like to look at comparable spots and see the different response. For instance, 37% of field left, HJ opens 30 bb stack, CO shoves 18 bb stack, we're on button with 25 bigs, what's our stack off range in regular vs PKO sims? What I've found is in general, the PKO sims are always a few pips wider, and the earlier in the tourney the wider they get as bounties are most valuable chip wise early. Here's one of my favorite examples - 90% of field, button opens 28 bb stack, BB response with 84 bb.

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07-17-2023 , 06:16 PM

Tidal

newbie

Join Date: Apr 2015 Posts: 42

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Originally Posted by ojsimpson32

Here's one of my favorite example

You can never win if u fold

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07-18-2023 , 07:01 AM

nath

the second coming of the second coming

Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 68,694

PKO Poker Strategy offers a good framework for estimating the added equity from potentially winning a bounty and giving some general guidelines on how much to widen your range to get it in against a shorter stack.

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07-18-2023 , 11:51 AM

Big_Mick00

Verified Coach MTT

Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 8,688

Depending on how big the bounty value is in BBs will drive our adjustments.

General themes
Open wider as the covering stacks, ive seen spots where UTG is opening ~30% or CO opening 45%
Open tighther when we are the covered stack
Should have limping ranges upto 30bb HJ-BT when covered
RP is reduced in ICM roughy by half but depends how big the field is, some cases covering player will have -RP.

Theres a lot of other adjustments and best you can do it run sims in HRC and get a feel for patterns. There are some many variables that no spot will be the same so have to get reps in.

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07-21-2023 , 07:01 AM

oldgoat

old hand

Join Date: Feb 2015 Posts: 1,972

Thanks all - lots of helpful suggestions - I'll get the PKO poker strategy book first off but I probably should invest in a solver,,,,

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