I have seen several people asking about "icm starting hands". I wrote a blog post several years ago about independent chip model. In that post I cover an example situation showing the usage of icm. 

ICM (Independent Chip Modeling) is a very valuable resource in a tournament player's poker tool kit. The math behind ICM can be called complicated, at best, but the basic concept is pretty simple. Basically it is a way of finding your real equity based ...