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Tournament Cruncher (ICM) – Casino Game Review
Tournament Cruncher (ICM) is a Casino/Card/Entertainment game from PokerCruncher, LLC, first launched in 7th December 2009.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 15+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Tournament Cruncher (ICM) Stand Out
An advanced poker tournament calculator, analyzer & dealmaker to give you an edge in tournaments.
Pay once and enjoy forever
No in-app purchases/fees.
Continual improvement for many years.
1) An ICM (Independent Chip Model) calculator
2) A ChipChop calculator
3) A final table chop dealmaker – compare the ICM deal with the ChipChop deal
4) An M & Q ratios, Number of Big Blinds, and Bubble Factor calculator
5) A Push/Call/Fold ICM Decision Analyzer
If this app helps you make just one better final table chop deal, it will pay for itself many times over! We suggest using this app fairly and responsibly when making final table chop deals.
Start using Tournament Cruncher today to improve your tournament game and results!
"ICM Cruncher [Tournament Cruncher], which works great in combination with Poker Cruncher, is an Independent Chip Model (ICM) calculator that teaches you the math behind the correct decision to push, fold, or call."
— PokerSoftware.com
Many more great reviews from poker experts, pros, and coaches, and on our TwoPlusTwo forum thread.
(See our website.)
If you play poker tournaments of any kind, knowledge of ICM is essential for doing well especially as you get close to the bubble or make it into the money. This is especially true for small tournaments and Sit-n-Go’s and satellites because you’re in this situation very often.
Tournaments and cash games are very different as you approach the bubble or make it into the money. In cash games it’s all about the chips, which are 1-to-1 equivalent to $’s all of the time. But in tournaments chips don’t have fixed/constant value; you’re trying to maximize your $ payout not your chips. This means you should not make decisions based on your chip equity or chip pot odds (that’s cash game thinking), but on your $ payout equity and $ payout pot odds.
ICM lets you do this by "converting" chip stacks to expected $ payouts. ChipChop is an alternative popular way of doing this. Tournament Cruncher gives you both ICM and ChipChop calculators.
ICM And ChipChop Calculators, Final Table Chop Dealmaker
- Up to 10 players, up to 10 payouts
- Fast ICM algorithm
- Simple and clean one-screen design so you can see the whole scenario easily
- Compare the ICM deal with the ChipChop deal
- Save/load up to 6 scenarios (e.g. save the payout structures of your favorite tournaments, save and compare a few scenarios for "what if" analysis)
- View calculation details and export to email
M & Q Ratios (And M Zone) And Number Of Big Blinds Calculator
Your M ratio (or M number) is a measure of the health of your chip stack in relation to the cost of playing each round. This ratio to a large extent determines how you should play with your current chip stack at the current stage of the tournament. Tournament Cruncher also shows you which M Zone you currently fall in. In calculating these metrics, Tournament Cruncher supports both regular ante and big blind ante.
Your Q ratio describes the relation of your stack to the average stack.
Your Number of Big Blinds is of course also an important measure of the health of your chip stack.
Bubble Factor Calculator
Bubble factor measures how big an ICM effect a given player has against another player. If your bubble factor is very close to 1, then there is very little ICM effect, and you can make decisions based pretty much on chip pot odds (as in a cash game). However if your bubble factor is significantly greater than 1, then you must make decisions based on your tournament $ equity (your ICM equity), not just on chip pot odds.
Push/Call/Fold ICM Decision Analyzers
- Call An All-In Or Fold?
- Push All-In Or Fold?
See our website for our strong free app update history over many years.
App Store reviews are greatly appreciated, thank you.
Also please check out our companion app PokerCruncher.
This Casino game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Tournament Cruncher (ICM) is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 9th October 2024
Recent improvements include:
A small UI and maintenance update:
- Set the text size of the toolbars’ buttons in a cleaner way, so that the toolbars don’t overflow if you set the iOS system text size setting to a very large text size.
Thanks for your latest app reviews. If you like Tournament Cruncher and our continuing work, please consider writing an App Store review, thanks!
-RJ, PokerCruncher, LLC
Download & Availability
Tournament Cruncher (ICM) is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Tournament Cruncher (ICM) on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
If youre a tourney reg and you dont have this app youre costing yourself $$. Love this app, does ICM and chip chop so you can compare amounts. Been using this for years and we have had zero issues. Must have app for tourneys.
Love this app, especially the bubble factor calculator for final table situations. Well worth the money.
Just found this tool. Haven't used it in real world but really wish we had it a year ago to be able to fairly award ourselves a better chop as chip leader with final five splitting pot. Would have got us extra $2k Ran the numbers and it seems very fair. Like we said its a must have tool. You never know when you'll be in that fortunate spot where u really wish u had this tool so get it and be prepared for those final tables!!! (No this isn't an infomercial lol).
This is simply the best ICM app on the store. While others can do the same ICM calculations, they don't have the chip chop feature and the support the Cruncher apps get. There's even other tools such as "M", push/fold, and others. While not an issue, can we get full iPhone 5 support in the next update? This is a well rounded tourney app. Thanks.
We have used this app in two final tables to achieve a chop that provided us and the rest of the players an undisputed analysis of the true value of our chips and our potential placement. There is no doubt that a fair and equitable division of the prize monies cannot be achieved instantaneously without this ICM at the felt table. Every player should have one as it stops all angle shooters dead in their tracks. Of course we look forward to various additions to this fine program. Dan "Amuletman" Olarnick.
Wonderful and educational. This company makes the best poker apps available for serious players.
Great first version; keep up the good work.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 11.3
- Size: 0.86 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Simulated Gambling
- Developer: PokerCruncher, LLC
Last updated: 9th October 2024 | Genre: Casino, Card | Developer: PokerCruncher, LLC