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10bb Small Blind Opening Range — Short-Stack RFI Strategy

At 10 big blinds from the Small Blind, GTO opens about 79% of hands — a mix of min-raises (~0%) and jams (~48%) rather than a pure shove. The grid below shows the full first-in strategy.
Jam Min-raise Limp Fold Partial fill = mixed frequency

Crafty Penguin GTO solver · MTT Chip-EV · 8-handed · 10bb effective · updated Jul 28, 2026

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How to play 10bb 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 10 big blinds. The solver opens about 79% 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.

At this depth the solver keeps a raise size in the mix, so the strongest hands don't simply jam — ATs jams about 100%. That's the key difference from a true push/fold spot: with more chips behind, min-raising lets you keep dominated hands in and play a postflop pot in position.

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 10bb

10bb UTG 10bb MP 10bb LJ 10bb HJ 10bb CO 10bb BTN

SB at other stacks

12bb SB 15bb SB 20bb SB
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