Ranges / Big Blind vs Button 5bb

Big Blind vs. Button push/fold chart - 5bb, 6-max

Big Blind calls 66% of hands here at 5bb effective (121 of 169 starting hands go in at full frequency). Facing an open from Button, this is Big Blind's continuing range (call or shove) rather than an opening range.

At this depth, shoving dominates raise-folding for almost every hand worth playing - there's rarely enough stack left behind to fold profitably to a 3-bet, so if a hand is good enough to open, it's usually good enough to get all-in.

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Big Blind vs. Button call range at 5bb, hand by hand

Always call121 of the 169 starting hands: 22+, A2s+, K2s+, Q2s+, J2s+, T3s+, 95s+, 84s+, 74s+, 63s+, 53s+, 43s, A2o+, K2o+, Q4o+, J7o+, T7o+, 97o+, 87o, 76o

Less than always — 6 hands the solver calls only some of the time: 65o (98%), Q3o (95%), T2s (18%), 86o (8%), 52s (3%), 94s (1%).

Across every hand dealt, that is 66% of hands played, weighted by how often each one is dealt.

Compared to 8bb

Big Blind calls 52 hands at 5bb that it folds at 8bb: Q5s, Q4s, Q3s, Q2s, J7s, J6s, J5s, J4s, J3s, J2s, T7s, T6s, T5s, T4s, T3s, J9o, T9o, 97s, 96s, 95s, Q8o, J8o, T8o, 98o, 87s, 86s, 85s, 84s, Q7o, J7o, T7o, 97o, 87o, 76s, 75s, 74s, Q6o, 76o, 65s, 64s, 63s, K5o, Q5o, 65o, 54s, 53s, K4o, Q4o, 43s, K3o, Q3o, K2o.

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