how to solve certain problems with the ICM (an algorithm)

[ilya]

Is anyone here actually nimble enough to do the calculations in real time while multi-tabling? Or do people just spend hours away from the tables running through different scenarios, and hope that they'll remember the results when the time comes?
That ICM calculator is really slow, that's part of the reason I ask.

[eastbay]

I think the idea is to work out a number of common scenarios and just get a "feel" for it. That's good enough, since the calculation has a lot of approximations in it, anyway, it's not worth working out the numbers in detail every time.

eastbay

[marley81]

How can you possibly calculate all of those % before your time has expired?

[The Yugoslavian]

Read Eastbay's last post in this thread.

Yugoslav