Push/fold chart: Nash shove and call ranges
Pick a table, a position and your stack in big blinds: the grid shows the hands to shove all in when the action folds to you, or the hands to call with when someone shoves first.
Ranges computed by PokerCorner on 1 November 2026, from exact preflop equities. No ICM: see the assumptions below.
BTN shoving 10 bb when folded to
Shove 40.6% of hands
These ranges assume Nash opponents and chip EV. Your tournament does not.
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How to use the chart
- 01Choose “Folded to me” when every player before you has folded, then pick your seat. The chart answers one question: shove all in or fold.
- 02Choose “Facing a shove” when a player shoves before you. Pick the shover and your seat: the chart shows the hands that call, assuming nobody has called yet.
- 03Set the effective stack: the smaller of your stack and the stack of the player you would play against, in big blinds.
- 04Golden hands are played, dark hands are folded. Tap a hand to see the largest stack at which it is still played.
What these ranges assume
A push/fold chart is only as good as its model. Ours makes the usual simplifications, and you should know them before you rely on it.
- Nash equilibrium: every player shoves and calls with the ranges of the chart. Against players who call too little or too much, the best play moves away from it.
- Chip EV, not ICM: the ranges maximise chips. Near the money, at a final table or in a satellite, chips you lose are worth more than chips you win, and calling ranges get much tighter.
- Equal stacks: every player has the effective stack you select.
- One caller at most: after a shove and a call, the players left fold. Overcalls are rare with these ranges and are not modelled.
- No limp and no min-raise: the only options are shove or fold, then call or fold.
- Card removal between you and the caller only: the cards of the players who folded before you are not taken into account. At a full table, their folds leave slightly stronger hands behind you, so from early and middle positions a few marginal shoves (medium suited connectors, offsuit broadways) are a little worse than the chart shows.
- Mixed hands: when the equilibrium plays a hand only part of the time (20% to 80%), the grid shades it as mixed. Shoving or folding it makes almost no difference.
- Antes: 12.5% means every player posts 0.125 bb; the big blind ante is a 1 bb ante posted by the big blind only.
When to stop using a push/fold chart
Shove-or-fold is close to the best strategy below about 10 to 12 big blinds. Between 12 and 20 bb, solvers start mixing in small raises, limps and re-shoves, so a pure shove range costs a little; above 20 bb it costs more.
The bigger gap is ICM. At the bubble or at a final table, a call that wins chips can lose money. Use the ICM calculator to see how much your stack is worth and how much extra equity you need before calling.
How we computed the ranges
We did not copy any published chart. First, a script compares every pair of starting hands on every possible board (1,712,304 boards for each of the 47,008 distinct heads-up matchups) to get exact all-in equities between the 169 hand types, with card removal.
Then a second script finds the equilibrium of each spot by fictitious play: each player repeatedly plays the best response to the average strategy of the others, 4,000 times, until no player can gain by changing their range. We solved 225 spots: 3 tables, 3 ante structures and every stack from 1 to 25 bb.
Before publishing, we checked the heads-up ranges against the public heads-up Nash tables (almost every hand within 0.1 bb), measured how much a player could still win by deviating from each published range, and replayed millions of real deals at full tables to test the shove decisions hand by hand.
Push/fold FAQ
What is a push/fold chart?
A push/fold chart lists the hands to shove all in, and the hands to call a shove with, for a given stack in big blinds. With a short stack, raising and folding to a re-shove wastes chips, so the decision comes down to all in or fold.
At how many big blinds should I start to push or fold?
Most players switch to pure shove-or-fold at about 10 to 12 big blinds. Between 12 and 20 bb a shove range is still a reasonable default, but solvers add small raises and re-shoves. The chart goes up to 25 bb so you can compare.
What does Nash mean in a push/fold chart?
Nash ranges form an equilibrium: no player can earn more by changing their own range while the others keep theirs. They are unexploitable, not maximally exploitative: against a player who folds too often, you can shove wider.
Do these charts include ICM?
No. They are chip-EV ranges. ICM makes calling ranges much tighter near the money and at final tables, and shoving ranges a little tighter. Use the ICM calculator to measure the pressure, or a solver such as GTO Wizard for ICM ranges.
Why does the big blind call so wide?
The big blind has already paid one big blind, plus the antes in the pot. Against a wide shove, many weak hands have enough equity for the price. With a big blind ante, the pot is bigger and the calls get wider still.
Are these ranges copied from another site?
No. We computed them ourselves: exact equities by enumerating every board, then an equilibrium for each of the 225 spots. Small differences with other tools at the edge of a range are normal, because models differ (overcalls, antes, rounding).