Category Archives: ICM

In my last two articles, I wrote about the effect field size and payout structure have on…

12/09/2023 16 min. / 26 sec.

Last time we discussed the ICM considerations in game selection, we looked at field size, which has…

11/09/2023 14 min. / 29 sec.

When people talk about game selection in multi-table tournaments (MTTs), they invariably talk about the number of…

15/08/2023 11 min. / 42 sec.

Final tables can be the most exciting and rewarding phase of a tournament, and being able to…

08/08/2023 13 min. / 33 sec.

With only fourteen players remaining in the 2023 WSOP Main Event and blinds of 400K/800K/800K, Joshua Payne…

25/07/2023 9 min. / 40 sec.

This is a companion piece to this article on the SB’s strategy for blind vs blind play…

02/05/2023 7 min. / 15 sec.

ICM incentivizes more conservative play, which means that at stages of the tournament where risk premiums are…

01/05/2023 6 min. / 26 sec.

When you have a lot of chips at a final table or in another situation with extreme…

24/04/2023 8 min. / 49 sec.

When I first started working with preflop solves, one of the features I found most striking was…

17/04/2023 9 min. / 39 sec.