Tournament Cruncher (ICM) for Android

11 things about Tournament Cruncher (ICM)

1. However if your bubble factor is significantly greater than 1, then you must make decisions based on your tournament $ equity (your ICM equity), not just on chip pot odds.

2. This means you should *not* make decisions based on your chip equity or chip pot odds (that’s cash game thinking), but on your $ payout equity and $ payout pot odds.

3. If your bubble factor is very close to 1, then there is very little ICM effect, and you can make decisions based pretty much on chip pot odds (as in a cash game).

4. This ratio to a large extent determines how you should play with your current chip stack at the current stage of the tournament.

5. Your M ratio (or M number) is a measure of the health of your chip stack in relation to the cost of playing each round.

6. If you play poker tournaments of any kind, knowledge of ICM is essential for doing well especially as you get close to the bubble or make it into the money.

7. Your Number of Big Blinds is of course also an important measure of the health of your chip stack.

8. Tournaments and cash games are very different as you approach the bubble or make it into the money.

9. An advanced poker tournament calculator, analyzer & dealmaker to give you an edge in tournaments.

10. But in tournaments chips don’t have fixed/constant value; you’re trying to maximize your $ payout not your chips.

11. In calculating these metrics, Tournament Cruncher supports both regular ante and big blind ante.