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Cutoff on the bubble - chip-EV vs. ICM
Chip-EV treats every chip the same. On the bubble, the chips that keep you alive are worth more than the ones that just add to a stack that's already covering the table - so the correct range isn't the same range.
Cutoff's open-shove range at 9bb effective goes from 33% of hands under chip-EV to 25% once the money bubble is real -- 8 percentage points tighter. Every stack at the table matters here, not just hero's: the covering stacks behind cutoff are what makes folding correctly worth more than the chips themselves.
Chip-EV baseline - 33% shove
Exact mixed frequencies (29)
K6s 97% shove / 3% fold,K5s 93% shove / 7% fold,K4s 31% shove / 69% fold,K3s 4% shove / 96% fold,K2s 2% shove / 98% fold,Q8s 93% shove / 7% fold,Q7s 6% shove / 94% fold,Q6s 4% shove / 96% fold,Q5s 2% shove / 98% fold,Q4s 1% shove / 99% fold,J8s 97% shove / 3% fold,J7s 9% shove / 91% fold,QTo 98% shove / 2% fold,JTo 97% shove / 3% fold,T7s 76% shove / 24% fold,T6s 1% shove / 99% fold,K9o 15% shove / 85% fold,J9o 2% shove / 98% fold,T9o 5% shove / 95% fold,97s 93% shove / 7% fold,96s 6% shove / 94% fold,87s 99% shove / 1% fold,86s 66% shove / 34% fold,85s 1% shove / 99% fold,76s 97% shove / 3% fold,75s 5% shove / 95% fold,65s 51% shove / 49% fold,64s 1% shove / 99% fold,54s 5% shove / 95% fold
Bubble ICM - 25% shove
Exact mixed frequencies (34)
A2s 99% shove / 1% fold,K9s 98% shove / 2% fold,K8s 29% shove / 71% fold,K7s 41% shove / 59% fold,K6s 6% shove / 94% fold,K5s 4% shove / 96% fold,Q9s 96% shove / 4% fold,Q8s 28% shove / 72% fold,Q7s 2% shove / 98% fold,KJo 99% shove / 1% fold,QJo 93% shove / 7% fold,J9s 98% shove / 2% fold,J8s 63% shove / 37% fold,J7s 2% shove / 98% fold,KTo 76% shove / 24% fold,QTo 40% shove / 60% fold,JTo 75% shove / 25% fold,T9s 98% shove / 2% fold,T8s 68% shove / 32% fold,T7s 3% shove / 97% fold,J9o 1% shove / 99% fold,98s 87% shove / 13% fold,97s 3% shove / 97% fold,A8o 98% shove / 2% fold,87s 9% shove / 91% fold,A7o 86% shove / 14% fold,76s 3% shove / 97% fold,A6o 24% shove / 76% fold,A5o 82% shove / 18% fold,A4o 14% shove / 86% fold,A3o 4% shove / 96% fold,33 99% shove / 1% fold,A2o 2% shove / 98% fold,22 92% shove / 8% fold
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