World Gaming Magazine

33 WGM #60 2018/07 wgm8.com as the bubble approaches and at all points beyond that, ICM can be a very valuable piece of knowledge to have. Why? Because by understanding our equity in a tournament and how that equity is likely to change should we find ourselves in a push or fold situation, we can learn to make better long term decisions when it comes to our tournament life. Of course, being quite a complex mathematical calculation, nobody expects you to do these sums in your head or even to know how to do them. Fortunately there are a number of programs available to do these sums for you and most of these will summarize situations for you with a simple piece of advice such as “Push”, “Fold” or “Call”. Over time, these decisions will start to become second nature and once that happens you will have built a huge advantage over the majority of your opponents. You might even say you just gained some bonus equity! 点，他们可以期待获得相同的奖金份额。然而随着钱圈临 近，在这之后的所有时间点，ICM 将是非常有价值的信 息。 为什么？因为通过了解我们在一场锦标赛中的赢率， 以及当你处在一个全押或弃牌局面中时，赢率有可能怎样 变化，我们可以做出更加明智的长远决定。 当然，这是一个相当复杂的运算，没有人指望你在脑 子里计算，甚至知道该怎么算。好在有一些程序可以替你 处理这些运算， 且大多会以一则简单的建议为你总结局 势，如全押、弃牌或跟注。时间久了，这些决定就开始变 成第二天性。相对于大多数对手来说，你也就有了巨大优 势。你甚至可以说，自己刚刚获得了一些额外赢率！