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8bb Small Blind Push/Fold Chart — GTO Jam Range

At 8 big blinds from the Small Blind, GTO jams roughly 60% of all hands first-in — going all-in with about 105 of the 169 starting-hand classes. The grid below shows the exact shove range from solver data.
Jam Min-raise Limp Fold Partial fill = mixed frequency

Crafty Penguin GTO solver · MTT Chip-EV · 8-handed · 8bb effective · updated Jul 27, 2026

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How to play 8bb from the Small Blind

This is a first-in spot: everyone folds to you in the Small Blind, and you're deciding whether to commit at 8 big blinds. The solver jams about 60% of hands here. The tighter the position, the fewer hands clear the bar to commit your stack — every hand you jam has to show a profit against the calling ranges left to act behind you.

Working down from the top: hands like AKs, AQs, ATs, A9s are pure jams, while a hand like T9s is a mixed jam at about 10%. Hands below that threshold fold — at 8bb they don't have the raw equity or fold-equity to jam profitably from the Small Blind.

Read the grid left-to-right within each cell: teal is the jam frequency, amber a min-raise, blue a limp, and the dark fill is fold. A fully teal square is a pure shove; a split square is a mixed frequency the solver plays some percentage of the time. Drill the borderline hands — those are where most of the EV is won or lost.

Other positions at 8bb

8bb UTG 8bb MP 8bb LJ 8bb HJ 8bb CO 8bb BTN

SB at other stacks

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