best way of working out your M value

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????

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.

Steveg1976 said:

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.

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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.

jumping jack flash said:

ill end up using the calculater on my mobile phone lol

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

thanks wurly ,it helps mate,

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.

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

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