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With a 6BB stack, push everything except total trash hands

With a 6BB stack, push everything except total trash hands from the cutoff. I would not push 10-5 to 10-2, 9-4 to 9-2, 8-4 to 8-2, 7-3, 7-2, 6-3, 6-2, 5-3, 5-2, 4-2 and 3-2. Otherwise, I will push everything whenever I can. With those worst possible hands, your equity is around 30 percent, which is close to being profitable facing three hands, but not quite. Assuming the small blind and button will call 15 percent of the time and the big blind will call 20 percent, we have 0.4(3) + [.6(14(.3)-6] = 0.12, making this a close decision. In general, you should shy away from these essentially neutral-EV decisions.

I will push with any two cards from the button.

I will push with any two cards from the button. Suppose you’re called 20 percent of the time from the small blind and 20 percent from the big blind, giving you 0.6(3) + 0.4[14(.3) - 6] = 1.08BBs expected profit. This is what happens when you push your worst hands. You make much more with your strong hands. Any time you can scoop up 1BB in equity, which is actually 1/6th of your stack, with one quick push, you should do it. From the small blind, you have to know how the big blind plays. If he is loose, you should push a bit tighter than I will suggest, although even if loose, he probably will not call off for 15BBs with hands like Q-8, so his calling range is rarely more than 40 percent. So, you can break this down to a simple math problem. If he calls a 15BB push from the small blind only 30 percent of the time, which he probably won’t, we have 0.7(3) + 0.3[32(0.38) - 15] = 1.7BB expected profit. Your equity in the hand is 0.38 when you push 100 percent of hands and he calls with 30 percent of hands. If he calls with only 20 percent of hands, your profit is still 1.7BBs, as the equation becomes: 0.8(3) + 0.2[32(0.36)-15] = 1.7BBs.