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I'm pretty sure 1500 tourneys would be useless for testing ICM empirically. In order to see what the equities are in a particular configuration of stacks you would have to see something very close to that configuration a very large number of times. I'm just pulling this out from down under, but I'd be surprised if you didn't need at least something on the order of 100,000 tourneys to do this and then you'd better have a lot of computing power and a lot of time.

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i don't know much about the stats involved, but the econ professor who was originally going to work with me said we could get some preliminary results at around 500.

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Out of curiosity, how are you going to test it?