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Under the Gun push/fold chart - 20bb, 9-max

Under the Gun open-raises 10% of hands here at 20bb effective (14 of 169 starting hands go in at full frequency). Under the gun opens first with the whole table still left to act behind it, so this is the tightest opening range at the table.

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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Under the Gun shove range at 20bb, hand by hand

Always shove14 of the 169 starting hands: 99+, ATs+, KJs+, AQo+

Less than always — 16 hands the solver shoves only some of the time: QJs (99%), KTs (98%), QTs (98%), 77 (98%), A5s (97%), A4s (95%), 88 (72%), 55 (65%), KQo (51%), AJo (49%), 66 (41%), A3s (29%), JTs (29%), A8s (14%), A9s (11%), A6s (7%).

Across every hand dealt, that is 10% of hands played, weighted by how often each one is dealt.

Compared to 25bb

Under the Gun shoves 6 hands at 20bb that it folds at 25bb: KTs, KQo, QTs, 99, 88, 55.

Going the other way, Under the Gun folds 2 hands at 20bb that it shoves at 25bb: A8s, A3s.

Hands right on the edge

These aren't clean shove-or-fold decisions - the solver mixes its strategy on each one: A3s (29% shove), KQo (51% shove), AJo (49% shove), JTs (29% shove), 88 (72% shove), 66 (41% shove).

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