General Strategy Do you play satellites?

[Bawse]

Satellites are a good way to win tickets to bigger tournaments.

If I remember right. I once satellited into a $200 buy-in, $250k guaranteed years ago for like a $1. One back to back tourneys to qualify.
It was on Partypoker/Bwin years ago.

Does anyone play satellites? What's the biggest tourney you satellited into?

 

[ItsOkToEatFish]

Sattys are great because often the players do not understand the icm of the format.

 

[Bawse]

Sattys are great because often the players do not understand the icm of the format.

 

[ItsOkToEatFish]

Sattys are great because often the players do not understand the icm of the format.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In poker, the Independent Chip Model[1] is a mathematical model that approximates a player's overall equity in an incomplete tournament. David Harville first developed the model in a 1973 paper on horse racing;[2] in 1987, Mason Malmuth independently rediscovered it for poker.[3] In the ICM, all players have comparable skill, so that current stack sizes entirely determine the probability distribution for a player's final ranking. The model then approximates this probability distribution and computes expected prize money.[4][5]
Poker players often use the term ICM to mean a simulator that helps a player strategize a tournament. An ICM can be applied to answer specific questions, such as:[6][7]

• The range of hands that a player can move all in with, considering the play so far
• The range of hands that a player can call another player's all in with or move all in over the top; and which course of action is optimal, considering the remaining opponent stacks
• When discussing a deal, how much money each player should get

Such simulators rarely use an unmodified Malmuth-Harville model. In addition to the payout structure, a Malmuth-Harville ICM calculator would also require the chip counts of all players as input,[8] which may not always be available. The Malmuth-Harville model also gives poor estimates for unlikely events, and is computationally intractable with many players.