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Poker Articles

If you want to keep up with all the strategy articles I've written, then look no further! Sort by topic, publication date, or alphabetical order. Some articles are available here in full. For others, check out the abstracts, and use the citations to obtain the articles in full.

Independent Chip Modeling Part 4: Beyond ICM

Poker Helper, Apr 2007

This series of articles about independent chip modeling was by no means an exhaustive treatment of tournament endgame theory. Many different tournament situations exist, and I’ve only scratched the surface. Hopefully you’ve learned how to perform ICM analysis on your own so that you can perform it on unique situations that you conceive or encounter. I used custom software to do all the analysis in these articles, and I hope to make it available to the public at some point (as if I need another project to work on). For now, you’ll have to Google around to see what you can find. There are some free ICM packages out there, and also some very good ones that you can pay for.

ICM is extremely powerful; however, like any mathematical model, it has its limitations. This article will talk about tournament theory beyond ICM, and it should give you lots of things to tuck in the back of your mind next time you’re in a tournament.
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