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8bb push/fold chart with a 1bb ante

The ante is worth roughly fifteen percentage points of jamming range at this depth, which is a bigger adjustment than two big blinds of stack. That is the single most useful thing on this page: players habitually adjust for depth and forget to adjust for the ante, and the ante is often the larger term. Eight big blinds with an ante plays much more like six without one.

Small blind jams 86% of hands.

Big blind calls 69% of hands.

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These ranges are solved here rather than copied from a published chart. The solver runs an iterative approximation, so treat the overall jamming frequency as reliable and the exact borderline cells as the least certain part of the grid. Hands on the edge of the range are close to break-even either way, which is why they are also the ones the solver is least sure about.

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.

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