Push/fold charts for 8-max tournaments
Shove-or-fold ranges for 10 and 15 big blinds, solved for eight players with a big blind ante. One chart for every seat, with the calls that go with it.
Also called shove charts, jam charts or Nash charts.
The 10bb chartsThe 15bb chartsPreflop charts for 20bb and deeper
Every seat, both depths
The share of hands each seat shoves when it is folded to. Pick a number for its chart.
The button, at both depths
The same seat with five more big blinds behind: the deeper stack risks more to win the same pot, so it shoves fewer hands.
Button at 10bb: shove 44%
- Shove
- 22+, A2s+, K2s+, Q4s+, J7s+, T6s+, 96s+, 86s+, 75s+, 65s, 54s, A2o+, K5o+, Q9o+, J9o+, T9o
- Sometimes
- J6s 16%, 98o 8%, 85s 72%
Button at 15bb: shove 37%
- Shove
- 22+, A2s+, K4s+, Q6s+, J7s+, T7s+, 96s+, 86s+, 75s+, 65s, A2o+, K9o+, QTo+, JTo, T9o
- Sometimes
- 54s 5%
How to read a chart
Each grid holds all 169 starting hands. Pairs run down the diagonal from aces to twos, suited hands sit above it and offsuit hands below.
Red is all-in and grey is fold. A cell in both colours is a hand the solver plays both ways: the wider the red, the more often it goes in.
A range such as "22+, A2s+, K9s+" reads as every pair, every suited ace, and suited kings from K9s up. An "s" is suited and an "o" is offsuit.
Questions
What is a push/fold chart?
A chart of which starting hands to move all-in with, and which to fold, when your stack is too short to do anything else well. Players also call it a shove chart, a jam chart or a Nash chart. There is one grid per seat, because the later you act, the fewer players are left to wake up with a hand, and the wider you can shove.
Are these Nash charts?
They are solved for this exact game: eight players, equal stacks and a big blind ante. The method used here guarantees a Nash equilibrium only for two players. For eight, what it can show is how much any seat would gain by playing differently, and here that is under 0.001bb a hand.
Do they account for ICM?
No. They maximise chips. Near the bubble or at a final table, where losing your stack costs more than doubling it gains, calls in particular should be tighter than these.
Why is a cell two colours?
The solver plays that hand both ways, shoving some of the time and folding the rest. The two plays earn almost the same, so either is fine at the table.
What if my table has no ante, or fewer players?
These ranges are for eight players with a 1bb big blind ante. Without an ante there is less in the pot to win, so every range gets tighter. With fewer players, use the chart for the seat that has the same number of players left to act behind it.
Now play it
Knowing the chart is one thing. The trainer deals you these spots one hand at a time and prices each answer in big blinds, from 10bb push/fold up to 50bb with 3-bets and 4-bets.
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