Opening Range
8bb Small Blind Opening Range — 3-Handed Spin & Go
Crafty Penguin GTO solver · Spin & Go · 3-handed · 8bb effective · updated Aug 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 opens about 67% 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 — AKs min-raises about 68%, while AQs jams about 95%. 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.
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