Bawse said:
ItsOkToEatFish said:
Sattys are great because often the players do not understand the icm of the format.
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In
poker, the
Independent Chip Model[1] is a
mathematical model that approximates a player's overall
equity in an incomplete
tournament. David Harville first developed the model in a 1973 paper on
horse racing;
[2] in 1987,
Mason Malmuth independently rediscovered it for poker.
[3] In the ICM, all players have comparable
skill, so that current
stack sizes entirely determine the
probability distribution for a player's final ranking. The model then approximates this probability distribution and computes
expected prize money.
[4][5]
Poker players often use the term ICM to mean a
simulator that helps a player strategize a tournament. An ICM can be applied to answer specific questions, such as:
[6][7]
- The range of hands that a player can move all in with, considering the play so far
- The range of hands that a player can call another player's all in with or move all in over the top; and which course of action is optimal, considering the remaining opponent stacks
- When discussing a deal, how much money each player should get
Such simulators rarely use an unmodified Malmuth-Harville model. In addition to the payout structure, a Malmuth-Harville ICM calculator would also require the chip counts of all players as input,
[8] which may not always be available. The Malmuth-Harville model also gives poor estimates for unlikely events, and is
computationally intractable with many players.
