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…