Poker Strategy Push Fold Chart
I have been playing and winning at poker since 2008 and have put together some charts for you. The chart will work well both online and live, in cash games and tournaments. In order to make things simple, I have given you an easy to read, yet comprehensive, range chart that covers virtually every pre-flop decision you could face at the poker table.
A Full Tilt Poker player has publicly posted a strategy chart for Full Tilt’s new preflop-only push/fold game Adrenaline Rush, introduced earlier this month, calling into question the long-time viability of the format.
- Using push-or-fold for 20bb is almost certainly a bad idea.) Some hands have gaps in their pushing strategies, they are marked with. and the details are displayed below the charts. For example 63s is included in the pushing strategy for stack sizes between 7.1 and 5.1bb, and stacks below 2.3bb.
- In this theory video Lisa Grant introduces you to four charts for the push or fold phase that will become invaluable for you when you play in Sit and Go tournaments. Each chart can be printed off and is explained in detail. Push or fold Starting hand chart Theory Video.
- TurboKings push/fold charts present the profitability and expected values (EV) of each combo in a readable format so you can make informed decisions and adjust to opponents accordingly. TurboKings push/fold charts are included with your TK membership, in addition to being available for purchase individually.
In Adrenaline, players can only raise or fold, removing any post-flop decision making. The buyin is set to 10 big blinds, and a 10 big-blind pot cap prevents any deep stack, strategic play. Tables are 4-max, fast-fold only.
The push-fold strategy is available publicly on Google Docs and shared by “MartinC,” a poster on the 2+2 poker forums. The spreadsheet outlines the optimal open-shove ranges in each position, the correct call ranges for open-shoves, and correct overcall ranges (i.e. when more than two are already all in).
“Such an easy game, I wanted to teach my sister how to grind it and stake her,” martoncz wrote. “But the rake seems way too high.”
There is some scope for exploitatively improving on this strategy with raise/fold and raise/call lines, but the strategy chart, if correct, would ensure proper equilibria play. The chart creator does warn that rake is not taken into account in the calculations, suggesting slightly tighter play than what the charts dictate would be more accurate.
Recent posts in the Adrenaline Rush thread on 2+2 demonstrate that the game may be very tough to beat, even with optimal play. Observed stats of opponents, posted by “hypergeometry” (1, 2), indicate that none of his opponents, over a 300,000 hand sample collectively, have turned a profit.
Full Tilt is currently running knockout leaderboards with $60,000 in prize giveaways to promote the new format.
Many players tense up when their stack reaches 15 big blinds and below. In truth, you should relax; with a stack this short, poker just became really easy to play. Instead of having to figure odds and read players, all you have to do is decide whether to shove or fold. At this stage of a tournament, I can give you as close to a poker 'system' as there is available.
11-15 Big Blinds
First in with this size stack you're too short to raise and then fold, but too deep to risk your whole stack on poor holdings. Stick to very premium hands in early position -- throw away AQ offsuit and KQ suited under the gun, and stay away from the smaller pairs. In late position, you can open it up a great deal, but if there are no antes, don't get too crazy. With the right type of opponents, you can make a small raise or limp with Aces or Kings if you are near certain that it will be raised behind you so you can go all in when the action gets back to you. But if there's any doubt, you're better off just pushing your chips in the middle with your big pairs.
Ten Big Blinds and Under
Poker is real easy now. With this stack, you can play unexploitable poker. Using Independent Chip Modeling and the Nash Equilibrium you can solve every situation with your stack size and hand versus however many random hands are left to act behind you. Don't know what ICM and Nash Equilibrium are? Professional card player, Chris 'Fox' Wallace and myself did the heavy lifting for you and put our charts up at pushfoldcharts.com. Go to pushfoldcharts.com and study the charts—or buy one to take with you to the card room. They give you all the information you need on what cards to push with and what cards to fold.
Though the charts give you the unexploitable ranges, there are still some adjustments you should be making, listed below.
The Six-Big Blind Rule
When you reach six big blinds, it can become correct to raise even wider than the charts suggest. This is because six big blinds is about as low as you can go and still expect people to fold to your raises. Once you fall below that number, people begin to call very loosely—often with any two cards—and the potential profit from people folding (which is the most important part of these small stack calculations) drops to nothing.
Under Five Big Blinds
You're almost certainly going to get called when you go all in with a stack under five big blinds. Due to the pot odds and the fact that there are still a few opponents who will fold their trash incorrectly, it's still correct to push with most of your hands here. But the knowledge that you are likely going to get called can still affect your choices. If you have a true trash hand (seven-deuce offsuit springs to mind) and the next players on the blinds are very weak you might fold and hope to get it in first next hand. If there are no antes and you can look at a bunch more hands for free, you might fold. But if there are antes and you are first in, your best option for most hands is to push and pray.
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Another good reason to play very tight early in a tournament is so that when you get to the late stages people will give your raises respect. As above, the potential profit from people folding—called Fold Equity—is key to successful push/fold strategy. If you can convince your opponents that you only put all your chips in the pot with a nut hand, your fold equity, and your entire tournament equity, goes way up.