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Preflop charts

Opening ranges from every 6-max position and defending ranges facing a raise, at 100 big blinds. Each chart shows the percentage of hands it actually plays, which is the number most players are wrong about.

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First in, five players behind you

UTG: First in, five players behind you
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Raise · 13.1% of handsFold

Position is the whole chart

The same two cards are a raise on the button and a fold under the gun, and nothing about the cards changed. What changed is how many players still get to act behind you and how often you will have the last word after the flop. That is why every opening range on this page gets wider as the button gets closer, and why a player who opens the same range from every seat is leaking money in both directions at once: too tight early, far too tight late.

How to actually use a chart

Not at the table. Look at it before a session and after one. The value is in noticing the gap between the chart and what you did, and that gap only shows up when you compare them against your own hands rather than reading the chart in the abstract.

A session debrief does that comparison for you: it reads the hands you played, and when an opening range is outside anything standard for that seat, it says so and prices what it cost.

Common questions

What percentage of hands should I open from each position?

Roughly 15% under the gun, 20% from the hijack, 26% from the cutoff and just over 40% from the button in a 6-max game at 100 big blinds. The charts above draw each of those exactly, so you can see which hands the percentage actually contains.

Are these solver outputs?

No, and the page says so rather than implying otherwise. They are the widely taught approximations of a 100bb 6-max equilibrium, simplified to raise, call or fold with no mixed frequencies. They are accurate enough to study from and to catch a range that is badly too wide or too tight, and not accurate enough to settle a marginal spot.

Why is the big blind defending range so much wider?

Because the big blind already has one big blind in the pot and is getting a price nobody else at the table is getting. That discount, not hand strength, is what justifies calling with hands that would be an easy fold from any other seat.

Do preflop charts still matter if I know postflop?

They matter more. Preflop is the only street you play in every hand, the decisions repeat with almost no variation, and a range that is wrong there is wrong hundreds of times a session. It is the cheapest leak in poker to fix and the most expensive one to leave.

Which of these did you actually follow last session?

A debrief reads your real hands and names the spots where your range was not the one you meant to play, priced in big blinds. The first one is free and complete.

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Preflop charts for 6-max, free | Poker Debrief