progressUTG open range at 80 BB
8-max MTT · ante 12.5 % · folded to the Under the Gun · chip EV
How UTG opens at 80 BB
When the action folds to the Under the Gun with 80 big blinds (8-max MTT with ante), the book plays 16% of hands: a raise to 2.1 BB with 16%. The other 84% fold.
Always raised: AA, AKs, AKo, AQs, AQo, AJs, AJo, ATs, ATo, A9s, A8s, A7s, KK, KQs and 13 more.
Mixed hands (the book splits them between actions): A6s, A5s, A4s, A3s, A2s, KJo, KTo, K9s, K8s, K7s, QJo, QTo, Q9s, J9s and 2 more.
At this depth everything opens with a small raise; all-ins appear only later, against 3-bets.
Next to it at 80 BB: UTG+1 19%. Seats closer to the button open more here, because fewer players are left to wake up with a big hand.
Closest decisions (the book opens them only part of the time): Q9s 50%, T9s 50%, A4s 52%, J9s 52%, QJo 54%, 55 44%, plus 9 more mixed hands. These are the hands worth drilling, because a small change in the opponents or the stack flips them.
What changes around 80 BB
The book opens 16% of hands here, 16% at 70 BB and 16% at 100 BB. Going from 70 BB to 80 BB, no hand crosses the 50% line; only the frequencies shift.
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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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