The Poker Copilot Blog

Tracking the development of Poker Copilot, Mac OS X software for poker analysis and statistics.

Tuesday, 14 September 2010

Coming in the next Poker Copilot Update: M-ratio

It's long been a popular request for Poker Copilot: Adding the M-ratio to the HUD. It's a statistic that is particularly useful when a tournament approaches the bubble.

Here's a screenshot showing it in action:

Screen shot 2010-09-13 at 4.31.17 PM.png

It's an odd example of M because this hand was in a cash game. But you get the point I hope.

From Wikipedia on the topic of M-ratio:

In no-limit or pot-limit poker, a player's M-ratio (also called "M number", "M factor"[1] or just "M") is a measure of the health of his chip stack as a function of the cost to play each round. In simple terms, a player can sit passively in the game, making only compulsory bets, for M laps of the dealer button before running out of chips. A high M means the player can afford to wait a number of rounds before making a move. The concept applies primarily in tournament poker; in a cash game, a player can in principle manipulate his M at will, simply by purchasing more chips.

A player with a low M must act soon or be weakened by the inability to force other players to fold with aggressive raises.

 

7 comments:

Oliviergrity said...

Poker Copilot own !

Steve, an amazing new feature if you can :

- Details for MTT, SNG, 9 man, 27man in the filter.
It would be very AMAZING :)

Joram said...

good job ! What about a customizable HUD, which could display different stats depending if you play CG or tournaments ?

kinoute said...

Yeah! More stats! Please continue.
A feature to add a theme for the HUD would be great, because just one "custom" is not enough. People who play CG or tournaments in SH or FR needs to adjust their colours for the HUD. Also sorry to repeat myself but please make a textbox to choose a separator for the statistics in the HUD please! (like "/" or "·") when you don't show labels.

dastinger said...

Nice to see that, Steve..but I'm going to say the same..could you add M AND Big Blinds? It really helps those who are used to BB count and not M. And if PCP knows M, it knows current BBs too. Please please please :D

Perry said...

jihaaaaa ;-) u da man !!! it would be great if u could add BB , too ... M and Big Blinds would be great !!!
cheers

megalofvia said...

awesome, this improvement was much needed!
thanks steve
keep up the good work

Attilio said...

Steve, i tried the 2.64 translated version and i noticed 2 problems: the HUD doesn't appear on the replayer and the M-ratio isn't correct (in a SnG i always had a value of 55).
Steve, it'll be possible to have different colours for different M zones (green for M above 20, yellow for M between 10 and 20, orange for M between 5 and 10, red for a M between 1 and 5 and grey for a M between 0 and 1)?
Thanks.

 

Poker Copilot

Free 30 Day Trial

Only $69

Order risk free with our 30-day money back guarantee.

  • Poker tracking software for Mac OS X
  • Supports PokerStars, Winamax, Merge Network, Ongame Network
  • Analyses your opponents while you play
  • On-table HUD for Mac
  • Easy to use, easy to understand

Watch a demo of the major features of Poker Copilot