TT vs a 20bb shoving range: Equity & Strategy

Pocket Tens (TT) has 56.6% equity all-in preflop against a 20bb shoving range — 164 combos, 12.4% of all starting hands. It wins 56.0% of runouts outright, loses 42.8% and chops 1.2%. These are exact figures from full board enumeration against every unblocked combo in the range, not a simulation.

The range this is computed against

Double the stack, half the range. At twenty big blinds a jam risks far more chips to win the same blinds and antes, so the push collapses to hands that are happy to be called: 55+, the strong suited aces plus the wheel aces, suited broadways and ATo+. Around 12% of hands.

20bb shove — 164 combos, 12.4% of all starting hands: AA, KK, QQ, JJ, TT, 99, 88, 77, 66, 55, AKs, AQs, AJs, ATs, A9s, A5s, A4s, KQs, KJs, QJs, JTs, AKo, AQo, AJo, ATo, KQo

After card removal, 149 of those 164 combos are still available (15 are blocked by the cards TT holds). TT is ahead of 124 and behind 25.

Hardest parts of the range for TT

Easiest parts of the range for TT

Put TT up against a 20bb shoving range — 164 combos, 12.4% of all hands — and the exact answer is 56.6% equity: 56.0% outright wins, 42.8% losses and 1.2% chops. Your own two cards remove 15 of those combos before the flop is even dealt — a blocker effect this number already accounts for, because every combo containing one of your exact cards is stripped out of the range first. You are ahead of 124 of the 149 combos you can still be facing (83%), which is what a 56.6% number actually looks like hand by hand.

Double the stack, half the range. At twenty big blinds a jam risks far more chips to win the same blinds and antes, so the push collapses to hands that are happy to be called: 55+, the strong suited aces plus the wheel aces, suited broadways and ATo+. Around 12% of hands. Inside that range, the combos that hurt TT most are JJ (18.0%), QQ (18.4%) and KK (18.9%); the ones you want to see are 99 (82.0%), 88 (81.6%) and 77 (81.2%). Across the whole range TT's equity swings from 18.0% at the bottom to 82.0% at the top — the single 56.6% headline is the combo-weighted average of all of it.

Against a 20bb shoving range (12.4% of hands), TT is a 56.6% proposition. You are the favourite, so the only question is whether the stack sizes and the payout ladder let you take the flip.

TT vs 20bb shove FAQ

What is TT's equity against a 20bb shoving range?

TT has 56.6% equity all-in preflop against a 20bb shoving range — it wins 56.0% of runouts outright, loses 42.8% and chops 1.2%. The range holds 164 combos (12.4% of all hands); TT blocks 15 of them, leaving 149 live. This is exact full board enumeration, not a simulation.

Which hands in a 20bb shoving range beat TT?

TT is behind 25 of the 149 live combos and ahead of the other 124. The worst matchups are JJ (18.0%), QQ (18.4%) and KK (18.9%); its best are 99 (82.0%), 88 (81.6%) and 77 (81.2%). Every figure is exact, computed against that hand's unblocked combos only.

What hands are in a 20bb shoving range?

26 hand classes and 164 combos — 12.4% of the 1,326 possible starting hands. By combo count it is 37% pocket pairs (10 pairs, 60 combos), 27% suited hands (11 classes, 44 combos) and 37% offsuit hands (5 classes, 60 combos). That shape is why TT runs at 56.6% against it rather than against a random hand.

Does TT do better against a wider or a tighter range?

Wider, almost always. TT has 68.6% equity against a loose-passive calling range (50.5% of hands) but 42.2% against a 4-betting range (3.2%). Equity against a range is mostly a question of how many weak hands the range still contains — which is why the same holding can be a monster against a button open and a fold against a 4-bet.

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