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20bb push/fold chart

At twenty big blinds pure push/fold is a simplification rather than a solution. The chart is still correct as far as it goes, and it is a perfectly good fallback when you are card dead, out of time or out of your depth. But a strategy with a smaller open-raise in it beats this one, and the gap widens with every big blind you add. Learn this range as a safety net, not as a plan.

Small blind jams 40.1% of hands.

Big blind calls 21.7% of hands.

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These ranges are solved here rather than copied from a published chart. The solver uses the exact all-in equity of every pair of hands rather than a simulation, and the solved ranges are checked so that neither player could gain as much as a hundredth of a big blind by playing any single hand differently. Hands on the edge of a range are close to break-even either way, so they are where charts from different solvers most often disagree, and where a small difference costs least.

See every depth at once on the full push/fold chart tool, or drill the same decision with tournament ICM pressure applied in the ICM push/fold drill.