UTG Opening Range In 6 Max Cash
In The Smarter.Poker 6 Max Cash Reference At 100 Big Blinds, The Under The Gun Seat Opens 8.4% Of All Starting Hands By Frequency And Plays 13.6% Of Them At Least Some Of The Time, With The Full Chart Below.
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The Under The Gun 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 Under The Gun. A Cell At 0% Is A Fold Every Time.
| A | K | Q | J | T | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | AA100% | AKs100% | AQs100% | AJs100% | ATs78% | A9s12% | A8s0% | A7s0% | A6s0% | A5s52% | A4s34% | A3s8% | A2s0% |
| K | AKo100% | KK100% | KQs100% | KJs85% | KTs42% | K9s0% | K8s0% | K7s0% | K6s0% | K5s0% | K4s0% | K3s0% | K2s0% |
| Q | AQo82% | KQo35% | QQ100% | QJs72% | QTs28% | Q9s0% | Q8s0% | Q7s0% | Q6s0% | Q5s0% | Q4s0% | Q3s0% | Q2s0% |
| J | AJo48% | KJo0% | QJo0% | JJ100% | JTs55% | J9s8% | J8s0% | J7s0% | J6s0% | J5s0% | J4s0% | J3s0% | J2s0% |
| T | ATo0% | KTo0% | QTo0% | JTo0% | TT100% | T9s38% | T8s5% | T7s0% | T6s0% | T5s0% | T4s0% | T3s0% | T2s0% |
| 9 | A9o0% | K9o0% | Q9o0% | J9o0% | T9o0% | 9982% | 98s22% | 97s0% | 96s0% | 95s0% | 94s0% | 93s0% | 92s0% |
| 8 | A8o0% | K8o0% | Q8o0% | J8o0% | T8o0% | 98o0% | 8853% | 87s18% | 86s0% | 85s0% | 84s0% | 83s0% | 82s0% |
| 7 | A7o0% | K7o0% | Q7o0% | J7o0% | T7o0% | 97o0% | 87o0% | 7731% | 76s15% | 75s0% | 74s0% | 73s0% | 72s0% |
| 6 | A6o0% | K6o0% | Q6o0% | J6o0% | T6o0% | 96o0% | 86o0% | 76o0% | 660% | 65s12% | 64s0% | 63s0% | 62s0% |
| 5 | A5o0% | K5o0% | Q5o0% | J5o0% | T5o0% | 95o0% | 85o0% | 75o0% | 65o0% | 550% | 54s0% | 53s0% | 52s0% |
| 4 | A4o0% | K4o0% | Q4o0% | J4o0% | T4o0% | 94o0% | 84o0% | 74o0% | 64o0% | 54o0% | 440% | 43s0% | 42s0% |
| 3 | A3o0% | K3o0% | Q3o0% | J3o0% | T3o0% | 93o0% | 83o0% | 73o0% | 63o0% | 53o0% | 43o0% | 330% | 32s0% |
| 2 | A2o0% | K2o0% | Q2o0% | J2o0% | T2o0% | 92o0% | 82o0% | 72o0% | 62o0% | 52o0% | 42o0% | 32o0% | 220% |
What The Range Plays Every Time
10 Hand Classes Are Opened Every Time: AA, KK, QQ, JJ, TT, AKs, AKo, AQs, AJs, KQs. Together They Are 58 Of The 1326 Possible Starting Combinations. 23 More Hand Classes Are Opened Only Part Of The Time, And The Most Frequent Of Those Are KJs At 85%, 99 At 82%, AQo At 82%, ATs At 78%, QJs At 72%, JTs At 55%.
Under The Gun Is The First Seat To Act Before The Flop, So Its Range Is Built To Hold Up Against Five Players Who Have Not Acted Yet. That Is Why The Always List Is Mostly Pairs, Strong Suited Aces And Big Broadway Hands.
Why This Seat Plays This Way
Five Opponents Behind You Means Five Chances That Someone Wakes Up With A Hand Strong Enough To Three Bet Or Call And Outplay You In Position. A Hand That Would Be A Comfortable Open On The Button, Such As A Weak Offsuit King, Becomes A Liability Here Because It Is Dominated By The Hands That Continue Against An Early Open.
The Mixed Section Is Where The Craft Lives. Suited Aces Such As A5s And A4s Appear Because They Make The Nut Flush, Block The Strongest Aces And Can Make A Wheel Straight, So They Play Well When They Are Three Bet And Have To Decide Whether To Four Bet. Suited Connectors Appear At Low Frequencies For Balance, So The Range Is Not Made Only Of High Cards And The Board Cannot Be Read Too Easily.
Offsuit Hands Are The First To Go. AJo And KQo Are Opened Only Part Of The Time Here, Because When They Are Called They Are Often Behind A Better Ace Or King, And They Do Not Make Flushes To Escape With. From Later Seats Both Of Them Become Regular Opens.
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 Five 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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