Ranges / Cutoff 8bb
Cutoff push/fold chart - 8bb, 6-max
Cutoff open-raises 35% of hands here at 8bb effective (62 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, 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.
Cutoff shove range at 8bb, hand by hand
Always shove — 62 of the 169 starting hands: 22+, A2s+, K5s+, Q8s+, J8s+, T8s+, 98s, 87s, A2o+, KTo+, QTo+, JTo
Less than always — 19 hands the solver shoves only some of the time: K9o (99%), 97s (99%), 76s (99%), K4s (98%), T7s (97%), 86s (96%), 65s (95%), K3s (28%), Q6s (27%), Q7s (16%), J7s (16%), T9o (4%), 96s (3%), 54s (3%), K2s (2%), Q5s (2%), Q9o (2%), 75s (2%), J9o (1%).
Across every hand dealt, that is 35% of hands played, weighted by how often each one is dealt.
Compared to 10bb
Cutoff shoves 3 hands at 8bb that it folds at 10bb: K4s, K9o, 65s.
Hands right on the edge
These aren't clean shove-or-fold decisions - the solver mixes its strategy on each one: K3s (28% shove), Q6s (27% shove).
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