Preflop guides
Short guides to preflop ranges for tournament players, explained with the charts on this site.
The guides
New to charts? Start with how to read one: it covers what a chart shows and what it leaves out, and the memorizing guide builds on it. The shoving guide compares the 10bb and 15bb push/fold charts, the 20bb guide covers the stack between push/fold and deeper play, and the stack depth guide follows each seat through all five depths. Every example opens as a full chart you can drill in the trainer.
- How to read a poker range chart
How a poker range chart is laid out, what its colours mean, how to read range notation such as 22+ and A2s+, and why a share of hands is not a share of cells.
- How to memorize poker ranges
A method for memorizing preflop ranges: learn the edge of each range, start under the gun and add a seat at a time, test yourself, and review what you miss.
- 10bb vs 15bb: when to shove in poker
How push/fold ranges change between 10 and 15 big blinds, seat by seat: which hands shove only at 10bb, and how much wider the blinds call a short stack.
- What does 20bb mean in poker? Stacks explained
20bb is a stack of 20 big blinds. How to count it, why it sits between push/fold and deeper play, and what the solver does with it from every seat.
- How stack depth changes preflop play in poker
Each seat at 10, 15, 20, 40 and 50 big blinds, from the solved charts: how much it plays, how it puts the chips in, and why 15bb is the tightest stack.
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