GGPoker AoF Strategy Guide: Push/Fold Ranges for Every Position
All-In or Fold strips poker down to one decision per hand: shove or fold. The rules take a minute to learn. The ranges behind those decisions are where most players quietly lose money — because the right answer for the same hand changes completely from seat to seat.
Key takeaways
- At 8BB 4-max the CO pushes about 27% of hands; the BTN pushes wider and the SB widest of all.
- Seat changes everything: K7o loses 0.29 BB per push from the CO, yet becomes a push once fewer players are left behind.
- There are 14 distinct spots: 3 open pushes, 4 calling spots for BTN/SB and 7 for the Big Blind.
- The jackpot only matters for suited hands that can make a straight flush — it decides the marginal ones, not the whole range.
How All-In or Fold works
AoF is played 4-max: CO, BTN, SB and BB. Every player can only move all-in or fold, so there is no post-flop play, no sizing and no bluffing after the flop. Your edge comes entirely from choosing the right hands to push and the right hands to call with. The ranges discussed here are for 8 big blind stacks, the setup PushFoldPro is built around.
Because the game is so constrained, it can be solved. A Nash equilibrium tells you, for every seat and every action in front of you, which hands make more chips than folding. Play close to those ranges and nobody can exploit you; deviate and every mistake repeats hundreds of times per session.
Why playing by feel loses money
Hands that "look decent" are often the costliest. Take K7o from the CO: with three players still to act, it loses 0.29 BB per push compared with folding. Small pairs go the other way: 22 looks weak but is a profitable CO push (+0.29 BB). Move the same hands to later seats and the answers change again.
Rule of thumb: the fewer players behind you, the wider you push. The more players already all-in, the tighter you call.
How the ranges change by seat
| Seat | Situation | Push range | What drives it |
|---|---|---|---|
| CO | First to act, 3 players behind | ~27% (tightest) | Most players left to wake up with a hand |
| BTN | CO folded, 2 behind | Wider than CO | One fewer opponent, more fold equity |
| SB | Folded to you, only the BB left | Widest open range | Heads-up against the Big Blind |
| BB | Never opens — only calls | Depends on the spot | Who pushed and how many are all-in |
The CO range is the tightest and the most important to learn first — it is free in the tool and shown hand by hand in our 8BB push/fold chart. How each later seat thinks is explained in the AoF position guide.
All 14 push/call spots
Calling is a different problem from pushing. When someone is already all-in you need a minimum share of the pot (your equity) to call. That threshold is plain pot-odds math:
| Calling spot | Equity needed to call |
|---|---|
| BTN vs CO | ≥45.7% |
| SB vs CO | ≥44.1% |
| SB vs BTN | ≥44.1% |
| SB vs CO + BTN | ≥30% |
| BB vs CO | ≥42.4% |
| BB vs BTN | ≥42.4% |
| BB vs SB | ≥43.8% |
| BB vs CO + BTN | ≥28.6% |
| BB vs CO + SB | ≥29.2% |
| BB vs BTN + SB | ≥29.2% |
| BB vs CO + BTN + SB | ≥21.9% |
The equity you need drops in multiway pots, but the ranges you face get much stronger, so you end up calling tighter, not looser. The Big Blind alone has seven of these spots, which is why BB defence is the biggest leak for most players — see Big Blind defence: all 7 scenarios.
Where the jackpot fits in
GGPoker's AoF jackpot pays when you make a straight flush using both hole cards. That gives suited connectors and gappers an extra, calculable value on top of their chip EV. It does not turn every suited hand into a push: it decides hands that are slightly negative without it. On the CO chart those are hands like T7s, 97s–96s, 86s–85s and 74s+.
The exact math, with dollar values per hand, is in how to calculate jackpot EV.
How to study AoF efficiently
- Learn the CO range first. It is the tightest and every other open range is wider.
- Then the SB. It is where players are most often too tight.
- Then the Big Blind spots, starting with BB vs SB (the most frequent) and BB vs CO.
- Finally the jackpot-dependent hands, because they only shift with the jackpot size.
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