MTT Preflop Ranges & ICM Strategy
Tournament ranges shift with every big blind you lose. Below are solver-backed opening ranges by position and stack depth, pulled from GTO Ranges+ as full 13×13 charts. Learn the borders of each range, and you have a preflop game that holds up from early levels to the final table.
Opening ranges · 40bb 8-max (chip EV)
Opening ranges · 20bb 8-max (chip EV)
Final-table ICM · 20bb 8-max
At a final table, busting costs real money, so correct opens tighten. Each chart puts the chip-EV range next to the ICM range so you can see exactly which hands to fold once pay jumps are on the line.
Near-bubble ICM · a real bubble table
On the money bubble, survival trumps chips. This is a realistic mixed-stack bubble table (stacks from 7bb to 50bb): each seat plays a jam-heavy, ICM-taxed range. Short stacks open-shove, not open-raise.
More stack depths, 3-bet ranges, and ICM spots are being added.
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