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independent chip model: a standalone construct

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independentchip model1 CONSTRUCTIndependent chip modelHARVILLE · 1973

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Tournament poker

Turning a chip stack into real-money equity

In a tournament, chips do not convert linearly to money, because only the top finishers are paid on a prize ladder, so a stack’s cash value depends on every stack at the table and on the payout structure. The independent chip model estimates each player’s expected share of the prize pool by taking the probability of finishing in each position as proportional to chip counts, the method Harville’s 1973 paper gave for assigning probabilities to the order of finish in multi-entry competitions. Chen and Ankenman’s The mathematics of poker applies this chip-to-equity reasoning to tournament play. The referent is the dollar equity implied by a chip stack, which is why chips won are worth less than chips lost near the money.[1][2]

Unit
The expected share of the prize pool implied by a chip stack
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Derived from chip counts and the payout schedule via finishing-order probabilities

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References

  1. Harville, D. A. (1973). Assigning probabilities to the outcomes of multi-entry competitions. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 68(342), 312–316. https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.1973.10482425
  2. Chen, B., & Ankenman, J. (2006). The mathematics of poker. ConJelCo. ISBN 9781886070257

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