What percentage of hands does Lojack open at 12bb?

Lojack open-raises 26% of hands at 12bb effective, 9-max - 47 of the 169 starting hands go in at full frequency.

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This is a GTO (game-theory-optimal) chip-EV range, balanced to be unexploitable against any opponent. Exploit ranges that deviate from this against a specific known tendency are a separate, Pro-tier solve.

Ranges / Lojack 12bb

Lojack push/fold chart - 12bb, 9-max

Lojack open-raises 26% of hands here at 12bb effective (47 of 169 starting hands go in at full frequency). The lojack sits three off the button with most of the field still behind it, so the range stays fairly tight.

At this depth you're deep enough that a few of the weakest hands here play slightly better as a raise you can fold to real aggression than as a flat shove, though shoving stays close to optimal for the bulk of this range.

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Lojack shove range at 12bb, hand by hand

Always shove — 47 of the 169 starting hands: 22+, A2s+, K9s+, Q8s+, J8s+, T8s+, 98s, 87s, A9o+, KJo+

Less than always — 18 hands the solver shoves only some of the time: K7s (99%), 97s (99%), K8s (98%), QJo (98%), A8o (98%), 76s (88%), A5o (73%), JTo (62%), QTo (50%), 86s (50%), KTo (49%), K5s (38%), T7s (29%), A7o (16%), K6s (13%), J7s (11%), 65s (8%), A4o (2%).

Across every hand dealt, that is 26% of hands played, weighted by how often each one is dealt.

Compared to 15bb

Lojack shoves 7 hands at 12bb that it folds at 15bb: QTo, JTo, A9o, 97s, A8o, 76s, A5o.

Going the other way, Lojack folds 1 hand at 12bb that it shoves at 15bb: KTo.

Hands right on the edge

These aren't clean shove-or-fold decisions - the solver mixes its strategy on each one: K5s (38% shove), KTo (49% shove), QTo (50% shove), JTo (62% shove), T7s (29% shove), 86s (50% shove).

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