Freezeout chipEV river jams
Considering the fact that when you are bluffing, you are risking your tournament live, should you river jam as much as pure chipEV when the ICM levels are pretty low?
Feels kinda tough to bluff-jam on the river, and by extent value-jam as I don't have enough river bluffs. Not sure if there are MTT-specific solutions for these or I should start to purely replicate the ChipEV solver outputs in these spots, ignoring the fact that I am in an MTT.
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When ICM pressure is low or none , u should play pretty close to chipEV/GTO solutions, including river jam bluff frequencies. The risk of busting is less punitive since all chips are still worth roughly the same as their nominal value. But even with "low" ICM, there’s a slight penalty for busting that doesn’t exist in cash games. So, technically, you should bluff slightly less than pure chipEV, but the difference is very small unless ICM pressure is medium/high. n a cash game, or the very early stages of an MTT, you should use the full GTO bluff/jam frequencies, since each chip has the same value. This san be counterintuitive because pure early stage icm involves chipping up. so all in all that's not to say that ICM is null in the early stages. It is not. ICM is still relevant as we accumulate chips to take advantage of the bubble which in many cases is where we set ourselves up to go deep or even bink.
