best way of working out your M value

#1 30th January 2009, 7:13 PM

as a bad mathmatician i struggle to calculate pot odds and outs whilst playing online as i get a brief period to think,its long enough but only just i round things off as best i can ,do any players know a quick easy formula to work out your M value . i still think in amounts of BBs but would like to change that ,any ideas????

#2 30th January 2009, 7:17 PM

Just look at the amount of the Prelfop pot before any raises or limps and divide your chip stack by that, this works even when antes kick in as long as you are at a full table.

#3 31st January 2009, 12:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Steveg1976

Just look at the amount of the Prelfop pot before any raises or limps and divide your chip stack by that, this works even when antes kick in as long as you are at a full table.

This, then round your stack and the pot before bets to the nearest hundred and remove the zeros. Then, you're only doing 2-3 digit division.

Example: 9 person 100/200 25 ante = 100+200+25*9 = 525
So the pot should show 525 before bets. Let's say your stack is 2560. Round these to 500 and 2500. Then M is simply 2500/500.

Hope this is semi usable.

#4 31st January 2009, 5:47 PM

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Originally Posted by jumping jack flash

ill end up using the calculater on my mobile phone lol

That is funny since computers have calculators in the accessories....

#5 1st February 2009, 2:32 PM

thanks wurly ,it helps mate,

#6 3rd February 2009, 8:09 AM

If its too complicated just use BB/stack size. Divide your stack size by the BB and when you are around 10 is when you wanna get into push/fold mode. Also, like Wurly said, this should just be an estimation, knowing that you have an M of 4.1215 rather than ~4 is useless.

#7 4th February 2009, 9:19 PM

Just take away the circumstances and use math to come up with the right descision

#8 4th February 2009, 10:05 PM

i use a calculator that i downloaded from qmcalculator.com its free and easy to use.

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