5 ICM Tips to Crush Poker Tournaments

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Join Stoyan Obreshkov as he reveals the "Top 5 ICM Tips to Crush Poker Tournaments"! Master risk premium, adjust strategies based on stack depth, and play skillfully from the big blind 🏆🔥

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5 ICM Tips to Crush Poker Tournaments

0:00 Intro
0:53 Tip #1 - Understand Risk Premium
3:06 Tip #2 - Play Your Stack Size
6:41 Tip #3 - Consider ICM Earlier in the Tournament
8:51 Tip #4 - Avoid Flatting
12:14 Tip #5 - Defend BB Properly
15:18 Bonus Tip
16:14 Quiz

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[GTOWizard]

What's your most heartbreaking bubble story? 💔

[Alexandertygreat]

Great video, brilliant stuff. Gracias

[Mitjitsu]

It would be really good if you could cover mystery bounty tournaments.

[Stefan-bnwh]

Hi. When I use the very same scenario in the got wizard (tip 4# example) it tells me to 3bet to 4.5 from the button and not to 5. Why is that? thx

[Egoinpokeregobroke]

i come from cash game and recently discovered the complexity of tournaments and find it very interesting. Thanks for such a good overview on ICM.
But i dont quite get why the short stacks have the highest risk premium on the bubble but the medium stacks are the ones who are, handcuffed, and should not really play a lot of hands.
Couldnt they also put a lot of pressure on the short stacks if no big stack is acting after them?

[hybvehk]

Yesterday I played 3 dollors torney. 3 to the money in I was 3rd in chips 4th player had 3.5bb. I had 8.7 chip leader had 14bb 2nd had 10bb. I was in the bb having with 77. SB which is 2nd in chips shoved. Do i have to fold this spot or 77s are too good to fold. Please let me know. Also teach me which hand is borderline in this situation.

[KimiiiRaikkonen]

Very useful video, but would be very nice if you said "uh" and "eh" not so much. :)

[peterock]

Played a bounty tournament on PokerStars yesterday . First hand had aces, they were cracked by Queen 10, did a rebuy second hand my king jack cracked aces. Third hand at a new table now I arrive as aces are cracked, and the 4th hand was an aces win. Also my first 7 hands were face cards/premiums against other monsters. lol you just gotta laugh

[RodrigoAnversa]

Quiz answers:
1- Stacks and payouts
2- 50% field left
3- Shortest stack
4- Less flatting more 3betting
5- The less equity realization we have due to ICM and risk premium the more we fold vs RFI from the BB and vice-versa