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Originally Posted by TheWholePic
Thanks ymu.
Those kind of calculations are pretty interesting for close spots
3handed,4handed as well (e.g. on the bubble of 6max,9max sitngos).
I have a vague idea that calcs for these situations multiply per each additional player.
Do you know about a thread,article or possibly an equation that adresses this?
The links sticky has some astoundingly good threads on this.
As you say, the calculations branch out for the multiple possibilities of who calls, with which range, and who might overcall. Thats why programs like SNGWiz, ICMizer and SNG Solver are so useful - they will do that for you. But you will lose some flexibility on setting ranges (I think in most instances they work on percentages, ranked in a slightly different way to pokerstove's rankings).
You need to get the right % call range in these programmes because that determines your fold equity for a push. If you feel like the range itself is just not accurate enough to give the right pot equity, you could probably fudge it a bit by checking out how the two ranges compare in pokerstove (eg custom vs % from Wiz) and adjusting your edge to compensate.
I'm a really bad person to ask about these softwarez though, I don't use them that much. I'm the kind of sicko who likes doing it by hand. I'm not sure it would make a massive difference in most cases, because it is so rare that we can be that precise about a range anyway. But if villain has a serious thing about suitedness or something, then it could make a big difference, I guess. Play with pokerstove and find out.