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Hijack 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.
Hijack's open-shove range at 9bb effective goes from 29% of hands under chip-EV to 20% once the money bubble is real -- 9 percentage points tighter. Every stack at the table matters here, not just hero's: the covering stacks behind hijack are what makes folding correctly worth more than the chips themselves.
Chip-EV baseline - 29% shove
Exact mixed frequencies (30)
K8s 89% shove / 11% fold,K7s 89% shove / 11% fold,K6s 27% shove / 73% fold,K5s 10% shove / 90% fold,K4s 2% shove / 98% fold,Q8s 53% shove / 47% fold,Q7s 2% shove / 98% fold,Q6s 2% shove / 98% fold,QJo 97% shove / 3% fold,J8s 94% shove / 6% fold,J7s 3% shove / 97% fold,KTo 98% shove / 2% fold,QTo 59% shove / 41% fold,JTo 79% shove / 21% fold,T8s 97% shove / 3% fold,T7s 8% shove / 92% fold,T9o 2% shove / 98% fold,98s 99% shove / 1% fold,97s 57% shove / 43% fold,96s 1% shove / 99% fold,87s 94% shove / 6% fold,86s 9% shove / 91% fold,85s 1% shove / 99% fold,76s 72% shove / 28% fold,A6o 97% shove / 3% fold,65s 5% shove / 95% fold,54s 1% shove / 99% fold,A4o 93% shove / 7% fold,A3o 9% shove / 91% fold,A2o 4% shove / 96% fold
Bubble ICM - 20% shove
Exact mixed frequencies (31)
A6s 97% shove / 3% fold,A4s 97% shove / 3% fold,A3s 94% shove / 6% fold,A2s 89% shove / 11% fold,K9s 97% shove / 3% fold,K8s 24% shove / 76% fold,K7s 9% shove / 91% fold,K6s 2% shove / 98% fold,K5s 2% shove / 98% fold,Q9s 95% shove / 5% fold,Q8s 8% shove / 92% fold,KJo 87% shove / 13% fold,QJo 68% shove / 32% fold,J9s 95% shove / 5% fold,J8s 32% shove / 68% fold,J7s 2% shove / 98% fold,KTo 31% shove / 69% fold,QTo 12% shove / 88% fold,JTo 12% shove / 88% fold,T9s 96% shove / 4% fold,T8s 15% shove / 85% fold,A9o 91% shove / 9% fold,98s 30% shove / 70% fold,97s 2% shove / 98% fold,A8o 10% shove / 90% fold,87s 3% shove / 97% fold,A7o 3% shove / 97% fold,A5o 3% shove / 97% fold,44 97% shove / 3% fold,33 90% shove / 10% fold,22 11% shove / 89% fold
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