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BTN 20 BB Push Chart: Shove or Standard Raise

BTN shoving range at 20 big blinds: 25% of hands — any pair and suited ace, A8o+, K7s+, KTo+ and T9s. When the all-in overtakes the standard raise.

Twenty blinds on the button is 53 hands, a quarter of all combos: every pair, any suited ace, offsuit aces from A8o, kings from K7s and KTo, queens from Q8s, QTo, JTo, JTs, T9s, 98s, J8s.

Push from BTN, 20 BB stack

AA
AKs
AQs
AJs
ATs
A9s
A8s
A7s
A6s
A5s
A4s
A3s
A2s
AKo
KK
KQs
KJs
KTs
K9s
K8s
K7s
K6s
K5s
K4s
K3s
K2s
AQo
KQo
QQ
QJs
QTs
Q9s
Q8s
Q7s
Q6s
Q5s
Q4s
Q3s
Q2s
AJo
KJo
QJo
JJ
JTs
J9s
J8s
J7s
J6s
J5s
J4s
J3s
J2s
ATo
KTo
QTo
JTo
TT
T9s
T8s
T7s
T6s
T5s
T4s
T3s
T2s
A9o
K9o
Q9o
J9o
T9o
99
98s
97s
96s
95s
94s
93s
92s
A8o
K8o
Q8o
J8o
T8o
98o
88
87s
86s
85s
84s
83s
82s
A7o
K7o
Q7o
J7o
T7o
97o
87o
77
76s
75s
74s
73s
72s
A6o
K6o
Q6o
J6o
T6o
96o
86o
76o
66
65s
64s
63s
62s
A5o
K5o
Q5o
J5o
T5o
95o
85o
75o
65o
55
54s
53s
52s
A4o
K4o
Q4o
J4o
T4o
94o
84o
74o
64o
54o
44
43s
42s
A3o
K3o
Q3o
J3o
T3o
93o
83o
73o
63o
53o
43o
33
32s
A2o
K2o
Q2o
J2o
T2o
92o
82o
72o
62o
52o
42o
32o
22
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Button shoving range at 20 BB (Nash equilibrium, no antes).

Even at a depth where the early positions have long forgotten the all-in, the button keeps a quarter of the deck in the shove — that's how much having two players behind you instead of seven is worth. But the chart has to be read correctly: these are hands whose shove doesn't lose to equilibrium, not hands obliged to go all-in. The button's default at 20 BB is an open raise of 2–2.2 BB with nearly half the deck.

The shove beats the raise in a specific environment: blinds who re-shove over your every open, or short stacks in the blinds where a raise provokes the all-in anyway — then it's better to set the terms yourself. Against passive blinds a 20 BB shove simply burns value: they would have folded to a raise too.

Boundaries for self-checking: A8o still shoves, A7o no longer does (compare with 15 BB, where A4o held on); 22 stays in the range at any button stack; T9s survives even the twenty — connectors die last.

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