What game are the ranges for?

Six-max no-limit hold'em cash, 100 big blind effective stacks, 5% rake. They are not tournament ranges and do not account for antes, straddles or ICM.

What size do the ranges open to?

2.5bb from UTG, HJ and CO. 3bb from the button and the small blind. The small blind can also limp.

Have the ranges been edited?

Only simplified. Any action a hand takes less than 5% of the time is set to zero and its share is given to the hand's other actions, so every cell is something you can actually learn. Nothing else is changed.

Where the ranges come from

Q: Which solver are the PlusEV ranges from?

MonkerSolver. The solutions were bought from MonkerGuy, an established seller of pre-solved MonkerSolver preflop ranges, and imported into the app.

Every chart in PlusEV is a solver solution. This page says which solver, which game it was solved for, and the one change we make before it reaches the app, so you can judge whether the ranges fit the games you play.

The solver

The ranges are solved with MonkerSolver. We bought the solutions from MonkerGuy, an established seller of pre-solved MonkerSolver preflop ranges, and imported them into the app. We did not build our own solver and we do not hand-adjust ranges to look more “playable”.

The game they were solved for

Setting	Value
Format	No-limit hold’em cash, six-max
Positions	UTG, HJ, CO, BTN, SB, BB
Effective stacks	100 big blinds
Rake	5%
Antes, straddles	None

If you play a different game, the charts are still a sound baseline, but they are not exact for it. Deeper stacks, much higher rake, a full-ring table or a tournament with antes all move the correct ranges.

Bet sizes

Sizes are in big blinds and are the total bet, not the amount added.

Action	Size
Open from UTG, HJ, CO	2.5bb
Open from BTN	3bb
Open from SB	3bb, or limp
3-bet in position (HJ, CO, BTN)	7.5bb
3-bet from SB	11bb, 12bb against the button
3-bet from BB	12.5bb, 14bb against the button, 9bb against the small blind
Squeeze	10bb from CO and BTN, 13.5bb from SB, 14 to 16bb from BB
4-bet	18.5 to 29.5bb, depending on positions and the 3-bet size
5-bet	All-in

These are the sizes shown on the position cards in the Ranges tab, such as “UTG Raise 2.5” or “BTN Raise 7.5”.

The one change we make: low-frequency actions

A raw solver output is full of actions taken 1% or 2% of the time. Nobody can memorize those, and nobody can execute them at the table.

So before a range goes into the app, any action a hand takes less than 5% of the time is set to zero, and that share is split evenly between the hand’s remaining actions. A hand that raises 97% and calls 3% becomes a pure raise. A hand that raises 60%, calls 37% and folds 3% becomes a 61.5% raise and 38.5% call.

The effect on the overall range is small. The hijack opening range, for example, is 21.63% of hands in the raw solve and 21.60% after simplification. Mixes of 5% and above are kept as they are, which is why some cells on the grid show two colours. See Splits and mixed strategies for how the app scores those.

How the training is measured against these ranges

Every answer you give is scored by the EV it loses against the solver’s best action in that spot. The case study uses the same measure across more than a million training hands to show how much players improve after practising.

Range changes

Every change to the range content, newest first.

Date	Change
September 14, 2023	Actions under 5% frequency removed and their share redistributed, as described above.
July 10, 2023	MonkerSolver ranges imported, replacing the earlier chart set.