Small Blind Push/Fold Range at 10 BB with BB Ante (6-Max)

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Top-left = strongest hands (AA), pairs on the diagonal. Upper-right = suited, lower-left = offsuit. Brighter green = always push. Dim = fold.

What percentage of hands should the Small Blind push at 10BB (6-Max) with a BB ante?

The Small Blind pushes 77% of hands at 10BB (6-Max) with a big blind ante. The most marginal hands at this frequency are 82s, 64o.

How much wider does the Small Blind shove at 10BB with a big blind ante?

15 percentage points: 77% of hands with the ante against 62% without it. The ante brings 21 more hands (196 of 1,326 combos) into the shoving range, including T2s, 93s, 92s, 83s, Q7o, J7o, T7o, Q6o.

Is 82s a shove from the Small Blind at 10BB with a BB ante?

It is a mix: with a big blind ante the Nash solution shoves 82s 41% of the time from the Small Blind at 10BB in 6-max. With no ante the same hand is shoved 1% of the time.

What does this chart assume about the ante and stack size?

With a big blind ante the Big Blind posts 1 extra big blind for the whole table, so 2.5bb is in the pot before anyone acts instead of 1.5bb. 10BB means 10 big blinds behind everything already posted: the blinds and, for the Big Blind, the ante. The ranges are chip-EV Nash equilibria with no ICM, solved from 1 to 25bb against the Nash calling ranges of the players left to act.