Shoving range from the Nash equilibrium chart · tournament with antes · 9-handed table · folded to you
With antes — the standard in today's tournaments and what the Pokwise app shows for this spot. Without antes, straight from the Nash chart: 76%.
With 4 BB, in the small blind only one opponent is left — that's why the small blind plays the widest ranges in the game, with numbers that surprise anyone seeing them for the first time. At this stack there's no real fold equity left: the big blind calls with almost anything, so the range is wide because you need to get called by worse hands — waiting for a big pair just throws away what little you have left.
The number comes from math, not style: the Nash chart finds the point where shoving stops being profitable against opponents who call correctly. Two sources of profit add up in a shove — picking up the blinds and antes when everyone folds, and getting to showdown with reasonable equity when someone calls. Antes put more chips in the middle, so the shoving range gets wider.
Works for 6-max too: what sets the shoving range is how many players are left to act behind you — and the SB sits the same distance from the button at a 6-max or a 9-handed table. This chart works the same in both formats.
This is exactly where the money changes hands: everyone plays the obvious hands the same way — what sets a player who studies apart shows up at the edges of the range.
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