Playing Under 10bb – Part 2: ICM
Studying shallow stack play when ICM is a factor is even more important than studying it in ChipEV Scenarios. This is because we are at the business end of the tournament, where every decision has significant real money implications.
Playing Under 10bb – Part 1: cEV
The solvers have shown us that short stack strategy can still be very nuanced, and as you will see today, most players are probably punting too much when they find themselves with a micro stack.
When to Open Shove vs. Different Player Profiles
There are hands that fare best as shoves and hands that outperform as regular (non-all-in) opens, and I wanted to see how this is influenced by the tendencies of the players that are left to act.
How Payout Structures Reshape Postflop Strategy
Is all ICM pressure the same, or should we tailor our postflop strategy to different payout structures? How big of an error is it to take the same default final table strategy into a tournament that features a more top-heavy or a more flat payout distribution?
How ICM Quietly Shapes Postflop Strategy From the Start
How significant is ICM at the start—as in the very first hand—of a tournament? Have we been learning the wrong way all this time by using Chip EV ranges to study spots when stacks are deep and few players have been eliminated?
Are You Leaving Value on the River?
In the early days of online poker, players were too loose. In the modern era, I think the prevailing leak is that they are too tight. Perhaps the most consistent leak I have noticed in the last six months before writing this piece is players who just call with nutted hands on the river, because they