How ICM Impacts BB Defense in Poker

[@GTOWizard]

What did you think of the video? How has ICM impacted your BB defense strategy at the poker table? Share your thoughts and experiences in the comments below!

[@ajacinth]

Great Video. Can you help me understand, 5:24 mins in video, I see that 88 & 44 move all-in 25 BB's w/ICM implications, but 66 only calls. Its good to know, but I'm not sure why? It seems to me that 88 & 44 need protection and have equity if called, but why doesn't 66 have those same qualities?

[@David-te9nq]

How do I quickly scroll through saved spots like it seems you did in the video? When I press up and down it only changes the avg. stack depth. In settings it says the filtering can be changed through the quickswitch tool, but i can't find this tool.

[@KimiiiRaikkonen]

Extremely good content. Your explanations makes me understand alot more than when I looked at these alone earlier

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[@GTOWizard]

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[@SoulfightPoker]

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[@slanduralexander1278]

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[@josephberg5579]

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[@captainmajed2078]

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[@SoulfightPoker]

I feel like in the covering portion of video there are some other factors at play in the BB jamming frequencies also, like in the first one the LJ is opening into a 10bb stack on BTN and 2 massive stacks in the blinds which I feel like would make LJ less incentivized to open and therefore make BB less incentivized to jam into a tighter LJ opening range. Like I think BB jamming K9s makes KJo KTo ATo fold from LJ opening range but LJ might not even open those hands in that first distribution, not sure those are just my thoughts on the theory I dont have GTOW mtt so I can't look at it myself unfortunately. thanks for the content! great mental exercise

[@und4rcntrl]

in the example with Hero BB deep stack that covers LJ, the LJ open range is the same in all the simulations? I suppose it becomes more tight when he is the short stack

[@Cardoso007]

I really love this channel and thanks for another video. In this one however, when BB covers, you said that the fact that the effective stacks are now 26bb doesn't affect the output of the SIM and probably that's true, but the fact the we're facing now a tighter LJ range heavily does. You can't draw precise conclusions in any study when you change two variables on the simulation. The solver stops shoving... but is it because he doesn't want to lose the dominant position or is it because it's now facing a tighter range?

[@ryandrest2056]

huh

[@lukasrutkauskas7726]

Great content. Im just unsure: is bubble factor and risk premium the same thing?

[@DedeKebabas]

Same same but different 😅

[@GTOWizard]

They both measure ICM pressure, just using different equations. Bubble factor: gtowizard.com/glossary/bubble-factor/ Risk Premium: gtowizard.com/glossary/risk-premium/

[@choboruin]

This might be a stupid question. I watched the other video on ICM and how ICM impacts every stage of the tournament. Does that essentially make chipEV solutions worthless? Why would I study chip EV shouldn't I always be using the ICM filter instead?

[@GillesAbraham-wh9uh]

Very good content 🎉😊❤

[@ronnie8384]

A lot of your examples you mention the BB having 60 bbs and illustrating the differences. However the SIM says BB has 25 bbs, which is a symmetrical stack to the LJ. Can you confirm this isn't a mistake? It looks like multiple examples have this same mistake.

[@GTOWizard]

The BB all-in shows 25bb, however that's adjusted to the effective stack. Their actual stack is shown in the top-right corner of the BB.

[@erdemtatar5583]

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[@okosolo]

Hey, thanks for this amaznig vid! Does this apply also during late reg? there are tournaments where there is 50%-40% left and ~40min late reg still, should we consider ICM then too? And do I understand correctly, the shorter avg stack is the less we could defend (also being short especially)?

[@GTOWizard]

ICM applies during late reg. Shortstacks tend to experience more ICM pressure on the bubble, and less on the final table. Generally, if there's less money behind in the shove, you call wider as your pot odds are better. But it depends on details.