"M"

[J_Tizzle23]

I see a lot on here about your specific "M" in a tournament; I'm sure I can find this somewhere on the forums, I figured by me asking what exactly this is maybe we could get an explanation here in this forum for everybody to read over. Thanks.

[GatorJH]

"M" is something that is discussed in "Harrington on Hold-em Vol I" and is the relation of your stack to the blinds and antes. A couple of examples are:

You have 1,500 in chips and the blinds are at 50 and 100. Every orbit you will lose 150 chips whether you play or not, so your M here is 10 (1,500/150)

You have 7,500 chips, there are 8 people at the table with blinds at 100/200 and an ante of 25. In this example it will cost you 500 chips (25*8+100+200) to sit through an entire round so your M is 15 (7,500/500).

The reason to calculate your M is that the hands you can play and how you play them vary greatly based on your M. You may want to pickup HOHO Vol 1 to get more info on how your M affects your play.

[Numbr2intheWorld]

"M" is something that is discussed in "Harrington on Hold-em Vol I" and is the relation of your stack to the blinds and antes.

... not to be a nerd, which i cant avoid by making this statement... but.

it was in volume 2.

[J_Tizzle23]

I was gonna say, I've read HOH:1 4 times, but never saw M anywhere in it :P I have been playing majority 1/2 NLHE cash the past year, and just now really switching to playing MTTs full time. So now that I'm out of the cash circuit, I plan on reading volume 2.