10bb Push/Fold Chart: 6-Max Ranges and Practice

Find your position's 10bb open-shove range below. These charts cover 6-max chip-EV decisions with equal starting stacks. For calling an all-in, use the calling-range charts. Playing 9-max? Use the separate 9-max references.

The 10bb push/fold chart for every position

These are solved open-shove ranges for every 6-max seat that can open a pot - the big blind never does, so there are five, not six. Tap a chart to open it full size and read it hand by hand.

Earlier positions shove tighter. Under the gun has five players left to act behind it, including both blinds, and gets to 22% of hands. The button has only the blinds, and gets to 39%. The small blind is heads-up against a single opponent and shoves 66% - there is only one player left that might call, meaning the value of fold equity is high. Every seat closer to the button is one fewer opponent who can wake up behind you.

At 10bb, push/fold is a useful study model, but smaller raises and limps can still matter. These charts do not compare those alternatives. Use the listed assumptions when studying the ranges rather than treating every playable hand as an automatic shove.

Which is why the chart above is a starting point rather than an answer. The two sections below take the button's 39% and show what a money bubble does to it, then what a read on the big blind does.

How a money bubble changes the 10bb shoving range

Chip-EV values chips linearly. ICM instead estimates prize-pool equity from payouts and the remaining stacks. This can change incentives in either direction. The examples below also have different stack distributions and solver versions; they illustrate different situations, not the isolated effect of adding payouts to an otherwise identical solve.

The displayed button ranges are 39% in the equal-stack chip-EV example, 52% in the covering bubble example and 32% in the covered bubble example. Hero starts with 10bb in each, but the opponents' stacks and model inputs differ.

The two ICM charts show how the complete stack distribution changes the decision. Their shove frequencies differ by 20 percentage points. This comparison does not establish a universal coverage adjustment or isolate one opponent's stack.

When hero covers both blinds, those opponents risk elimination against the shove. When both blinds cover hero, hero bears that risk instead. Other stacks can also affect the cost of busting. Read the actual charts and payout inputs rather than assuming that every bubble must make every seat tighter.

The assumptions behind this comparison

The middle chart above - hero covers both blinds - is one specific, fully specified spot, not an illustration, so every number in it is checkable. It's 6-max, hero on the Button, at these per-seat stacks:

UTG

45bb

HJ

13bb

CO

21bb

BTN

10bb

SB

8bb

BB

7bb

Ante: 0.125bb per player. Payouts: 5 places paid - #1 40%, #2 24%, #3 16%, #4 11%, #5 9% of the prize pool.

The payout schedule above is sourced from the matching 0.3.0 solver output. It applies to these specific six-player bubble examples, not to every tournament with five paid places. Solved by the Linear CFR solver documented in full on how these ranges are solved - solver version 0.4.0 - and checked against the live dataset on 24 September 2026. This block has its own anchor, #the-assumptions-behind-this-comparison, so the exact spot behind the 52% and 32% figures above can be cited or linked on its own.

What a read on the big blind does to a 10bb shove

The chip-EV chart is a baseline for the restricted model. The following charts instead target specified big-blind calling tendencies. Check their assumptions before treating a difference as an adjustment for a real opponent.

Against a big blind that folds too often, the button jams 11 points wider. Fold equity is doing more of the work, so hands that were marginal purely on showdown value become clear shoves. Against one that calls too much, the range tightens by only 1 point.

These results depend on the modeled calling ranges. A tighter opponent creates more folds; a looser one changes both the call probability and your equity when called. Neither effect has a universal size or direction across all hands, stack depths and payout situations.

Using a 10bb chart at the table

Learn the chip-EV charts by position, then compare situations with the actual stacks, payouts and opponent tendencies you want to study. ICM and exploit adjustments interact; do not add or subtract fixed percentages from these separate examples. Use charts for study away from the table and follow your poker site's assistance rules.