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Message: [QUOTE="blankoblanco, post: 591203, member: 11119"] M is a term that gained prominence in the poker world through Harrington on Hold 'Em, Dan Harrington's book series about tournament poker (definitely recommended reading). Your M is essentially how many more orbits at the current blinds and antes your chip stack can survive before it would be completely blinded out. You find this by taking your current chip stack and dividing it by the amount that's in the pot before any action takes place (meaning the total of the big blind, small blind, and antes, if there are antes). So say you're in a tournament that's 9-handed. You have a stack of 12,000 with blinds of 200/400 and antes are 50 per player. The pot starts out with 600 chips in blinds and 450 chips in antes (50 times 9), which is 1,050 chips total. Your chip stack of 12,000 divided by the 1,050 the pot begins with means you have an M of ~11.5. [/QUOTE]