World Gaming Magazine

32 WGM #60 2018/07 wgm8.com 游戏 PLAY 德 州扑克是一个很棒的游戏。无论你偏爱在周末纠 集三五好友静享游戏乐趣，还是喜欢前往娱乐场 玩上几局现金赛，每个人都能找到适合自己的方 式。 不过如果你立志成为一位顶尖玩家， 则必须付出额外 的努力。任何一位优秀的锦标赛玩家都必须掌握的一个至 关重要的概念，就是独立筹码模型（ICM）。 什么是ICM ？简单来讲，ICM 是一个基于所有玩家的 筹码量、游戏中的总筹码量以及奖池分配，计算你在一场 锦标赛中任何一个既定时刻的赢率的运算法则。 在一场锦标赛开始时，这是无关紧要的，因为所有玩 家拥有相同的筹码，因此赢率相同。换言之，在那个时间 P oker is a great game to play. Whether you enjoy having a few friends around on a weekend for a quiet game or prefer heading down to the casino for some cash games, there is something on offer for everyone. But if you have ambitions of becoming a top-quality tournament player you must be prepared to put some work in – and a vital piece of knowledge for any good tournament player is something called Independent Chip Model or ICM. What is ICM? To put it simply, ICM is a mathematical equation that calculates your equity in a tournament at any given time based on the chip stacks of all players, the amount of chips in play and the prize pool allocation. At the start of a tournament it is irrelevant because all players have the same amount of chips and therefore the same equity – ie. the amount of money they can expect to win at that point of the tournament on average. However,