progressLJ vs UTG open at 50 BB
8-max MTT · ante 12.5 % · chip EV
LJ facing a UTG open at 50 BB
The under the gun opens to 2 BB and the action reaches the lojack with 50 big blinds. The book folds 89% of hands, calls with 5.8%, 3-bets to 6.5 BB with 5.1%.
Always 3-bet: AA, AKs, KK, KTs.
Always call: AQs, AJs, AJo, ATs, KQs, JJ, 99, 77.
With players still to act behind, the lojack needs a stronger hand to continue, so it plays fewer hands than the button does and prefers a 3-bet or a fold to a loose call.
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Numbers come from the progressGTO solution book (v14, chip EV, 8-max, ante 12.5 %): our own equilibrium computation with a modelled postflop. It is an approximation, not an exact solution, and it keeps improving. Hover or tap a hand to see its exact frequencies.
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