Small Blind Push/Fold Range at 15 BB with BB Ante (9-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 15BB (9-Max) with a BB ante?

The Small Blind pushes 65% of hands at 15BB (9-Max) with a big blind ante. The most marginal hands at this frequency are 86o.

How much wider does the Small Blind shove at 15BB with a big blind ante?

20 percentage points: 65% of hands with the ante against 45% without it. The ante brings 33 more hands (268 of 1,326 combos) into the shoving range, including Q4s, Q3s, Q2s, J5s, J4s, J3s, J2s, T5s.

Is 86o a shove from the Small Blind at 15BB with a BB ante?

It is a mix: with a big blind ante the Nash solution shoves 86o 59% of the time from the Small Blind at 15BB in 9-max. With no ante the same hand is shoved 0% 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. 15BB means every player starts the hand with 15 big blinds, before the blinds and the ante; the Big Blind pays the ante out of its own stack. 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.