Poker Push Fold Strategy

4/10/2022by admin

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These Push Fold Charts will help you understand when you need to either fold or shove your entire stack when you are short stacked in poker tournaments. Please use these charts as a study tool to help you improve your understanding of push fold scenarios.

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For instance, a basic skill for players in multi-table or Sit-and-Go (S-n-G) tournaments is the push/fold strategy, which means you either go all-in or fold in a hand. This action is used mostly when poker tournaments have fewer players remaining and you are in the money or nearly there. Short Stack Push/Fold Charts 206 Small Blind PFI Strategy 209 Button PFI Strategy 214 Cutoff PFI Strategy 218 Hijack PFI Strategy 220 Lojack PFI Strategy 222 UTG+2 PFI Strategy 224 UTG+1 PFI Strategy 226 UTG PFI Strategy 227 08 Ddd µ o µ u ^ P W ( v 230 Theoretical Considerations 230. You hear a lot about 'push-fold' strategy when short-stacked in poker tournaments — that is, when you've reached a kind of 'danger zone' with your chip stack at which you haven't any room for.

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In no-limit or pot-limitpoker, a player's M-ratio (also called 'M number', 'M factor'^[1] or just 'M') is a measure of the health of a player's chip stack as a function of the cost to play each round. In simple terms, a player can sit passively in the game, making only compulsory bets, for M laps of the dealer button before running out of chips. A high M means the player can afford to wait a high number of rounds before making a move. The concept applies primarily in tournament poker; in a cash game, a player can in principle manipulate his M at will, simply by purchasing more chips.

A player with a low M must act soon or be weakened by the inability to force other players to fold with aggressive raises.

The term was named after Paul Magriel.

Calculation[edit]

The M-ratio is calculated by the formula:

{displaystyle M={frac {mbox{stack}}{{mbox{small blind}}+{mbox{big blind}}+{mbox{total antes}}}}}

For example, a player in an eight-player game with blinds of $50/$100, an ante of $10, and a stack of $2,300 has an M-ratio of 10:

{displaystyle M={frac {2300}{50+100+(10times 8)}}={frac {2300}{230}}=10}

That is, if the player only makes the compulsory bets, he will be 'blinded out' of the game in 10 rounds, or 80 hands.

Dan Harrington studied the concept in great detail in Harrington on Holdem: Volume II The Endgame, ^[2] defining several 'zones' in which the M-ratio may fall:^[3]

Zone name	M-ratio	'Optimal' strategy
Green zone	M ≥ 20	Most desirable situation, freedom to play conservatively or aggressively as you choose^[4]
Yellow zone	10 ≤ M < 20	Must take more risks,^[3] hands containing small pairs and small suited connectors lose value
Orange zone	6 ≤ M < 10	Main focus is to be first-in whatever you decide to play, important to preserve chips
Red zone	1 ≤ M < 6	Your only move is to move all-in or fold
Dead zone	M < 1	You are completely dependent on luck to survive. The only move is to push all-in into an empty pot

Effective M[edit]

Harrington further develops the concept to account for shortening tables, as is seen at the closing stages of multi-table tournaments. The M-ratio is simply multiplied by the percentage of players remaining at the table, assuming a ten-player table to be 'full'.^[5]

{displaystyle M_{mbox{Effective}}=Mtimes left({frac {mbox{Players}}{10}}right)}

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Therefore, for a player with a 'simple M ratio' of 9 at a five player table, the effective M is 4.5:

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{displaystyle M_{mbox{Effective}}=9times left({frac {5}{10}}right)=4.5}

This means that although the player's simple M value places him in the orange zone, his effective M dictates a shift in playing style appropriate for the red zone. In essence, ten times the effective M denotes the expected number of hands a player can let pass before running out of chips.

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