Poker ICM Calculator

Prize equity · bubble factors · call or fold · final-table deals · bounties

1 Payouts

Payout preset Currency symbol Dead money in each pot (blinds, antes)

Prizes are paid by finishing place. Enter amounts or percentages; only the proportions matter. Presets are common shapes to start from. Check the real payouts of your event.

2 Players and stacks

Bounties

3 Bubble factor and risk premium when you call an all-in from another player

Rows are the player who would call; columns are the player who is all-in. The all-in is for the smaller of the two stacks. Equity needed is the share of the pot you must win to break even in prize money. Risk premium is how many points that is above the plain chip break-even. Bubble factor is what a loss costs divided by what a win earns (1.00 means chips are worth chips).

3 The decision

You are All-in player Your equity if you call (%)

Not sure of your equity? Work it out with the Poker Odds Calculator and enter it here.

Chip-EV break-even

ICM break-even

Risk premium

Bubble factor

Bounty you would win

The pot is twice the smaller stack plus the dead money. Prize equity uses the Malmuth-Harville model. With bounties, winning against a player you cover also wins their bounty in cash (all of it in a knockout, half of it in a progressive knockout).

3 Deal options the prize money still to play for is split three ways

Blend: ICM ↔ chip chop (50% chip chop)

ICM splits by each player's prize equity. Chip chop splits by chip share. Chip chop with minimum pays everyone the prize of the lowest remaining place first and splits the rest by chips. Enter an offered amount in the last column to see how it compares with ICM. Chip leaders usually prefer a chip chop; short stacks prefer ICM.