Ranges / Hijack 8bb

Hijack push/fold chart - 8bb, 9-max

Hijack open-raises 36% of hands here at 8bb effective (68 of 169 starting hands go in at full frequency). The hijack has just two players left to act before the button, so the range opens up a step from under the gun.

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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Hijack shove range at 8bb, hand by hand

Always shove68 of the 169 starting hands: 22+, A2s+, K4s+, QJs, QTs, Q9s, Q8s, Q6s, J8s+, T7s+, 97s+, 87s, 76s, A2o+, K9o+, QTo+, JTo

Less than always — 14 hands the solver shoves only some of the time: K3s (99%), 86s (99%), 65s (99%), J7s (98%), Q5s (92%), 54s (84%), 96s (47%), 75s (47%), Q7s (45%), T9o (11%), K2s (8%), 64s (7%), T6s (4%), J9o (2%).

Across every hand dealt, that is 36% of hands played, weighted by how often each one is dealt.

Compared to 10bb

Hijack shoves 3 hands at 8bb that it folds at 10bb: K3s, Q5s, K9o.

Hands right on the edge

These aren't clean shove-or-fold decisions - the solver mixes its strategy on each one: Q7s (45% shove), 96s (47% shove), 75s (47% shove).

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