Cutoff Opening Range In 6 Max Cash

In The Smarter.Poker 6 Max Cash Reference At 100 Big Blinds, The Cutoff Opens 16.8% Of All Starting Hands By Frequency And Plays 24.9% Of Them At Least Some Of The Time, With The Full Chart Below.

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The Cutoff Opening Chart

The Chart Is Generated From The Smarter.Poker Preflop Reference, The Same Ranges The Preflop Range Lab Drills. They Are An Authored Teaching Reference For Six Handed Cash At One Hundred Big Blinds, Not A Solver Export, And No Solve Tree Or Checksum Is Attached To Them. Two Sizes Describe A Mixed Range And They Are Not The Same Number. The First Counts Every Hand At The Rate It Is Actually Played, So A Hand Opened Half The Time Counts Half. The Second Counts Any Hand The Range Plays At Least Some Of The Time, In Full.

Read The Table By Row And Column. Pairs Run Down The Diagonal, Suited Hands Sit Above It And Offsuit Hands Below It, And Each Cell Shows How Often The Hand Is Raised When The Action Folds To The Cutoff. A Cell At 0% Is A Fold Every Time.

Cutoff Opening Range, 6 Max, 100 Big Blinds: Raise Frequency Per Hand
RankAKQJT98765432
AAA100%AKs100%AQs100%AJs100%ATs100%A9s85%A8s55%A7s28%A6s12%A5s100%A4s82%A3s58%A2s35%
KAKo100%KK100%KQs100%KJs100%KTs100%K9s68%K8s28%K7s8%K6s0%K5s0%K4s0%K3s0%K2s0%
QAQo100%KQo100%QQ100%QJs100%QTs100%Q9s55%Q8s15%Q7s0%Q6s0%Q5s0%Q4s0%Q3s0%Q2s0%
JAJo100%KJo72%QJo52%JJ100%JTs100%J9s65%J8s15%J7s0%J6s0%J5s0%J4s0%J3s0%J2s0%
TATo72%KTo35%QTo18%JTo28%TT100%T9s100%T8s42%T7s0%T6s0%T5s0%T4s0%T3s0%T2s0%
9A9o25%K9o0%Q9o0%J9o0%T9o0%99100%98s75%97s10%96s0%95s0%94s0%93s0%92s0%
8A8o0%K8o0%Q8o0%J8o0%T8o0%98o0%88100%87s62%86s0%85s0%84s0%83s0%82s0%
7A7o0%K7o0%Q7o0%J7o0%T7o0%97o0%87o0%7782%76s52%75s0%74s0%73s0%72s0%
6A6o0%K6o0%Q6o0%J6o0%T6o0%96o0%86o0%76o0%6658%65s42%64s0%63s0%62s0%
5A5o0%K5o0%Q5o0%J5o0%T5o0%95o0%85o0%75o0%65o0%5538%54s28%53s0%52s0%
4A4o0%K4o0%Q4o0%J4o0%T4o0%94o0%84o0%74o0%64o0%54o0%4418%43s0%42s0%
3A3o0%K3o0%Q3o0%J3o0%T3o0%93o0%83o0%73o0%63o0%53o0%43o0%330%32s0%
2A2o0%K2o0%Q2o0%J2o0%T2o0%92o0%82o0%72o0%62o0%52o0%42o0%32o0%220%
Opens 16.8% Of All Starting Hands By Frequency, And Plays 24.9% At Least Some Of The Time. Pairs Are On The Diagonal, Suited Hands Above It And Offsuit Hands Below It.

What The Range Plays Every Time

23 Hand Classes Are Opened Every Time: AA, KK, QQ, JJ, TT, 99, 88, AKs, AKo, AQs, AQo, AJs, AJo, ATs, A5s, KQs, KQo, KJs, KTs, QJs, QTs, JTs, T9s. Together They Are 138 Of The 1326 Possible Starting Combinations. 32 More Hand Classes Are Opened Only Part Of The Time, And The Most Frequent Of Those Are A9s At 85%, 77 At 82%, A4s At 82%, 98s At 75%, ATo At 72%, KJo At 72%.

The Cutoff Sits Directly To The Right Of The Button. With Only The Button And The Blinds Behind It, The Cutoff Range Adds More Suited Kings And Queens, More Offsuit Broadways And Pairs Down To 44.

Why This Seat Plays This Way

Only One Player, The Button, Can Hold Position On You After The Flop. If The Button Folds, You Are Guaranteed To Be In Position Against Whichever Blind Calls. That Is Why The Cutoff Range Takes Such A Large Step From The Hijack: Most Of The Hands It Adds Play Far Better In Position Than Out Of It.

The Cutoff Is A Stealing Seat. When Everyone Behind Folds You Win The Blinds Without A Flop, And A Wider Range Gives The Blinds A Harder Time Guessing What You Hold. Hands Such As K9s, Q9s And The Weaker Suited Aces Are Opened Because The Combination Of Fold Equity And Positional Advantage Makes Them Profitable, Not Because They Are Strong In A Vacuum.

The Button Is The Player To Respect. A Button That Knows Your Range Is Wide Can Three Bet You Often, And It Will Have Position For The Rest Of The Hand. If The Button Is Aggressive, Open Slightly Tighter And Plan To Four Bet Or Call With The Hands In Your Range That Can Stand The Pressure.

Common Mistakes

The Most Common Leak Is Treating A Mixed Hand As A Pure One. A Hand Listed At A Frequency Below 100% Is Folded The Rest Of The Time, And Turning Every One Of Them Into An Open Adds Combinations The Reference Does Not Play. With Three Players Still To Act Behind This Seat, Every Extra Weak Open Is A Hand That Can Be Raised Off Its Equity.

The Second Is Copying A Chart To A Game It Was Not Built For. These Ranges Assume Six Players, 100 Big Blind Stacks And A Standard Open Size. Shorter Stacks, Antes, A Straddle Or A Very Passive Table All Change The Right Answer, So Use The Chart As A Baseline And Adjust With A Reason You Can Name.

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