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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-raise range at 9bb effective goes from 29% of hands under chip-EV to 23% once the money bubble is real -- 6 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
ShoveFold
Bubble ICM - 23% shove
ShoveFoldWider than GTOTighter than GTO
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