Hijack Near-Bubble Opening Range at 11bb (MTT ICM, 8-Max)

Near the money, survival is worth more than chips. Busting one spot before the bubble bursts means zero, while folding into the money guarantees a cash, so every marginal spot is taxed by the risk of elimination. The result is a range built around fold equity: at 11 big blinds you are not raising to build a pot and play postflop, you are open-jamming to put maximum pressure on the table and deny anyone a cheap look. A shove risks your tournament life, but at this depth a min-raise commits most of your stack anyway, and jamming takes the fold equity cleanly instead of raise-folding or raising into a spot you cannot continue.

This chart comes from a realistic bubble table where stacks range from under 10bb to 50bb, not a clean equal-stack lab. That matters: the covering big stacks behind you can call off lightly because busting you costs them nothing, so your looser bluff-jams lose value and the range leans toward hands with real showdown equity. The exact border of what jams versus folds shifts with the stacks behind you, which is why drilling the full ICM tree beats memorizing a single chart.