Ranges / Cutoff 20bb

Cutoff push/fold chart - 20bb, 9-max

Cutoff open-raises 28% of hands here at 20bb effective (52 of 169 starting hands go in at full frequency). The cutoff is close enough to the button to apply real pressure on the blinds, so the opening range widens noticeably here.

At this depth you're deep enough that a few of the weakest hands here play slightly better as a raise you can fold to real aggression than as a flat shove, though shoving stays close to optimal for the bulk of this range.

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Cutoff shove range at 20bb, hand by hand

Always shove52 of the 169 starting hands: 22+, A2s+, KQs, KJs, KTs, K9s, K7s, Q8s+, J8s+, T8s+, AKo, AQo, AJo, ATo, A9o, A8o, A7o, A5o, KJo+, QTo+, JTo

Less than always — 12 hands the solver shoves only some of the time: K8s (99%), 98s (99%), 87s (99%), 97s (98%), KTo (88%), 86s (68%), 76s (65%), K6s (57%), T7s (22%), K4s (3%), A4o (3%), J7s (1%).

Across every hand dealt, that is 28% of hands played, weighted by how often each one is dealt.

Compared to 25bb

Cutoff shoves 11 hands at 20bb that it folds at 25bb: K6s, KTo, JTo, A9o, 97s, A8o, 87s, 86s, A7o, 76s, A5o.

Hands right on the edge

These aren't clean shove-or-fold decisions - the solver mixes its strategy on each one: K6s (57% shove), T7s (22% shove), 86s (68% shove), 76s (65% shove).

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