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    Poker Strategy

    Tournament Chop Strategy

    ICM Chop vs Chip Chop  Explained for the average (or well below average) poker player. You don’t have to know anything about the two tournament chop strategies to know how to employ them.   Use ICM Chop if you are a shorter stack.  Use Chip Chop if you are the chip leader or close  ICM Chop ICM estimates each players chances finishing in each place and adds them together. The smallest chip stack may finish in last 80% of the time and first 2% of the time, with the other places in between. 80% of the last prize is added to 2% of the first prize, and so on, until arriving…

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    Poker Software

    IDC Poker Tools

    Introducing I Dont Chop’s poker APP Idontchop.com (IDC) has been developing a poker app over the years with limited time and resources but has finally advanced enough to be released in a Public Beta. IDC Poker Tools Public Beta The IDC App has been developed as a Progressive Web App (PWA). A PWA is an app that runs on the web but designed as a mobile and desktop application. It can be installed on Android, IOS, and Windows. Tournament Chop Analyzer IDC determined a market need for a tournament chop analyzer that was easy to use and quick to add prize pool and chip count for tournament directors while allowing…

  • Poker Gear

    I DONT CHOP poker tee

    The first I DONT CHOP poker tee shirt is now available on Amazon. Be one of the first to buy and display proudly in the blinds during your next poker game! In the weeks and months ahead, I Don’t Chop will release more poker gear featuring the “I Don’t Chop” phrase including hoodies, iphone cases, and pop tops. The shirts will be manufactured and produced by Amazon’s Merch service making ordering and returns handled by Amazon. We considered this the best choice for customers though the initial price may be a bit higher if we printed and shipped ourselves. Please give our shirts a try!

  • Coding stuff

    Dec ’18 JavaStove Release

    The Java Poker Hand Range Equity Calculator. http://www.idontchop.com/JavaStove.jar This Windows GUI running in the Java language was developed as an experiment. The developer is open to a large-scale development of a poker solver running in the cloud branded as “I Don’t Chop” which could later include I Don’t Chop merchandise. If interested, contact him by email at nate at this domain.

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    Isomorphic boards oh my

    Well, the one thing you shouldn’t do with programming is try to reinvent the wheel which is mostly what I’ve been doing while creating this tool. I managed to get headsup calculations instant with the use of a pre-compiled table, but more than headsup is simply too slow to be considered for release. So, after some searches, I’ve discovered the key would be Isomorphic boards. In a nutshell,  if you have AAAKK, and all 4 of each cards are in the deck, then there are 24 different ways to make this board. When brute force enumerating, you would be evaluating the hand 24 times when you should only need to…

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