World Gaming Magazine

34 WGM #63 2018/10 wgm8.com 游戏 PLAY 经危急，只有两个选择，全押或弃牌。即便你全押，也不 大可能会吓跑所有对手。也要记住，一旦你进入红区，即 便是筹码翻倍也只能最多将你带回橙区，因此你要尽可能 避免沦落至此。 最 后 来 到 了 死 区， 你 的M值 下 滑 至1以 下。 如 Harrington所解释的，“在死区，你看起来还活着，其实 不然。你只是 一个扑克僵尸，不再是一个选手，而是一 只等着挨揍的小虫。你只有一个选择，全押。当你这样做 时，他们将跟注，以除掉你。”无需多言，你永远不该让 自己落入任何接近死区的田地，不过有时候你会无意间落 入死区，比如当你输给对手一次全押，而这位对手的筹码 额略少于你。 那些起始筹码小得荒谬的锦标赛除外，所有选手开 始锦标赛时都处于绿色区域。在这个阶段，M因子意义不 大，但随着比赛的深入，盲注和底注成为一个越来越大 的因素时，Harrington建议在每手牌开始前都计算一下 M值，并且密切留意每位对手的M值。一位对手的M值越 低，他跟注你的加注的可能性就越低，并且他全押的手牌 of the table you can survive before the blinds and antes reduce your stack to zero, assuming you don’t play a hand. For example, if blinds are at 100/200 with no antes, each round of the table will cost you 300 chips (100 + 200). If you have 3,000 chips in front of you, your “M” is calculated by dividing your stack by the cost of each round – in this case 3,000 divided by 300 which gives you an “M” of 10. In other words, you can survive 10 rounds of the table if you fold every hand. Another way to look at this would be that if there are nine players at the table and you have an “M” of 10, you can survive for 90 hands. The idea of “M” is that it provides a better guide as to the real size of your stack than simply counting your big blinds, therefore enabling you to make better decisions in regards to the urgency of your predicament. The greater your “M”, the more patient you can be. The smaller your “M”, the sooner you will have to make your move. So what constitutes a good “M” and what constitutes a worrying one? Harrington – a two-time WSOP bracelet winner and 1995 WSOP Main Event champion – addresses this question by dividing poker tournament stacks into five zones, with the size of your stack determining which of these zones you fit into at any given time. The first is the Green Zone, which refers to any time you have an “M” of 20 or more and is obviously the zone you want to sit in for as long as possible. This is a great zone to be in because your stack size allows you to raise, call raises, re-raise or even 4-bet bluff without putting your tournament life at stake. All options are open to you. Next comes the YellowZone where your “M” is between 10 and 20. In this zone you will have to consider opening up your starting hand range to avoid slipping further, however you become less able to call raises with speculative hands such as small pairs and suited connectors in the hope of flopping a monster. The Orange Zone is when your “M” sits between 6 and 10 and although your tournament life isn’t yet critical, you have now almost entirely lost the ability to make any moves and playing a hand will likely mean committing all your chips. Having said that, you don’t want to slip any lower through the zones so once you enter the Orange Zone you should increase your aggression in order to return to the Yellow Zone (or better). The Red Zone means you have between 1 and 5 rounds remaining and by now your tournament life is critical. Your only two moves are all-in or fold and even if you shove it’s unlikely you will force a fold from all of your opponents.