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Originally Posted by tyler22
Hey Greedy....I've also checked out these charts and a number of other players have also said they are really good. The only question I have is are these charts good for early...mid...and late tourney stages or just for late stage? Some of the latest tourney books have suggested that there is a difference in the hands you should be pushing when you're still far from the money and if you're in the money or at the final table. For example, in Kill Everyone the push/fold charts they have are for when you're still far from the money. The ranges change somewhat once the bubble breaks and you're actually in the money.
These charts are based on chipEV. You use chip EV in cash games and also in spots in SNGs and MTTs where there aren't changes in the payouts in the near future. In spots where there are pretty significant changes in the money (like 5 players or less left in a 9 man SNG, or the money bubble of an MTT, or the final couple tables of an MTT) you need to use $EV which is calculated from the Independent Chip Model, ICM.
In most situations other than you being a large chip leader, ICM requires you to have more chipEV than normal. This is because you are close to a pay-jump and so the variance of possibly losing an all-in matters more than usual.
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Originally Posted by MTTwannabe
Too bad there are not open shoves up to like 15bb. Still alot of spots where shipping instead of r/f or r/c is best imo. I agree that over 10bb alot of the time you are r/c of sometimes r/f but would still be cool to have it. I have been using the charts from pocketfives, seems too loose.
ibimon, i asked you this once before in another thread but i forgot where, which charts to you use? can you share?
OK so you can actually make your own charts for various shoving situations and calling situations. I did this recently using a tool that I subscribe to called ICMizer. You can still probably do it even if you don't pay for it because they give everyone three free searches per day.
http://www.icmpoker.com/icmizer/#default
I will quickly try to explain how to do this and then tell you some of my results. Here is how to figure out shoving ranges on the button 15bbs deep. Put it in chip EV. Blinds at 500/1000 (I used no ante). Set everyones stack to 15000. Make hero the Button and everyone folds to him. Click the calculate nash equibrium button (nash is an approximation of each person's final strategy if you kept re-adjusting to each other over and over). Now if you'd like you can adust the calling ranges of the players behind you. Now press calculate. And thats it. For all the hands in green, its better for you to shove them than fold.
So I did this and adjusted the calling ranges a little bit and came up with this shoving range from the button for 15bbs effective with no ante. (22+, A8o+, A3s+, KQo+, QTs+, JTs). Notice that this just means that under my conditions it's better to shove these hands than to fold them in terms of chip EV. The even better play might be to raise/fold something like A3s for example.
Last edited by Greedy284186; 03-31-2014 at 04:21 AM.