Ranges / Small Blind 15bb
Small Blind push/fold chart - 15bb, 9-max
Small Blind open-raises 65% of hands here at 15bb effective (118 of 169 starting hands go in at full frequency). The small blind opens into just the big blind, a heads-up spot where a wide, aggressive range is usually correct.
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.
Small Blind shove range at 15bb, hand by hand
Always shove — 118 of the 169 starting hands: 22+, A2s+, K2s+, Q2s+, J2s+, T3s+, 95s+, 84s+, 74s+, 64s+, 53s+, 43s, A2o+, K2o+, Q5o+, J8o+, T7o+, 97o+, 87o, 76o
Less than always — 11 hands the solver shoves only some of the time: J7o (98%), 63s (98%), 86o (92%), Q4o (85%), 65o (78%), 94s (72%), 93s (5%), 96o (3%), 73s (2%), T2s (1%), J6o (1%).
Across every hand dealt, that is 65% of hands played, weighted by how often each one is dealt.
Compared to 20bb
Small Blind shoves 16 hands at 15bb that it folds at 20bb: J2s, T4s, T3s, 94s, 84s, Q7o, J7o, T7o, Q6o, 86o, 76o, 63s, Q5o, 65o, Q4o, 43s.
Hands right on the edge
These aren't clean shove-or-fold decisions - the solver mixes its strategy on each one: 94s (72% shove), 65o (78% shove).
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