10 thoughts on “Explaining ICM In Poker!!”

1. Great,Ben! Thanks a lot from small stackes grinder!)

2. hey ben .. w all the respect .. u startin t develope an ego blind spot ..i mean u put a like in every simple [ not useful ] super positive comment and u ignore legit questions ..in a free video which is obvious that it was made very fast for advertisin your product ..which never the less i appreciate it & i thank u so much ..
   ..but ignorin legit questions and like who ever pets your ears in this spot !!!! i believe that you r & u can be better than this

3. Thank yoy

4. So if the rest of the field gains ev when people bust even in the earlier phases does this means when we max late reg at tourney the ev is more than the buy in?

5. Thanks Ben ☺♥

6. Slightly unrelated? Question, I’ve watched videos on calling short stack jams and they weren’t considering the factor of us losing those chips and thus having less fold equity in the future to accumulate our own chips.

   Should we be making slightly tight folds in this example: we have 16bb in bb w 33, CO jams 11bb. I’m pretty sure this is a +EV call, but should we pass on these spots sometimes – even when far from the money – to preserve our own fold equity? Thanks

7. I think a decent leak in my game is rejamming from the big blind v LP opens. I see on the charts that hands like J8s/K6s seem to be recommended based on the ranges the charts assume. Do you think this is optimal in reality? Ik we shouldnt rejam linearly, but are those the types of hands we generally want to mix in with our premiums?

8. It should be "One cold shower a day, keeps the punts away"

9. Bitte auch auf deutsch

10. Does future game considerations ever push the decision to a looser than chip ev play? For example, in the late stages of a tournament, having the chip lead stack as a competent player can allow you to open extremely wide and win a lot of pots with little resistance, which increases your equity in the tourney immensely, but isn’t considered in ICM. For instance, let’s say there is a chip lead v chip lead pot with 15 people left in a large field, somewhat too heavy payout tournament, and you get to the river with a somewhat marginal bluff catcher. Does it make any sense to call somewhat wider in that spot because of the equity you gain by being able to apply chip lead pressure surrounding the massive pay jumps?

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