Most pages answering this search hand you a PDF and wish you luck. This one puts the charts on the page itself: five opening ranges for 6-max cash at 100 big blinds, one per position, in full. They are the same ranges the PlusEV trainer drills.

Which chart do you actually need?

“Hold’em charts” covers several different tools, and grabbing the wrong one is a common early mistake:

  • Hand ranking charts settle what wins at showdown, flush versus straight and so on. That’s a one-table subject, settled once and remembered forever.
  • Opening range charts, this page, answer the question that starts every hand you play: first in, from this seat, do these two cards raise or fold?
  • Defending and 3-betting charts answer what to do when someone raised before you. They branch by who raised and from where, which makes them a library rather than a page: facing a raise and facing a 3-bet are the two you need first, and the rest are in the full chart library.
  • Push/fold charts are for short stacks in tournaments, and don’t apply to the 100bb cash game these charts assume.

Opening ranges come first for a reason: the spot happens constantly, the answer never depends on reading anyone, and errors here compound through every later street.

How to read the grids

Each grid is 13×13, covering all 169 distinct starting hands in Hold’em. Three rules cover the layout:

  1. Pairs run down the diagonal, AA at the top-left to 22 at the bottom-right.
  2. Suited hands sit above the diagonal: the “s” hands, like A5s.
  3. Offsuit hands sit below it: the “o” hands, like KJo.

Colour is the action: red raises, blue folds. Hover any cell for the exact hand and action. A longer walkthrough, including the mixed-action cells, is in our guide to reading the range grid.

One assumption applies to everything below: the pot is unopened, meaning everyone before you folded. The moment someone raises first, you’re in a different chart.

UTG: the tightest range in the game

First to act, five players behind, and every one of them can wake up with a better hand. Under the gun opens the least of any seat, and correctly so: 17.5% of hands, 232 of the 1,326 possible combinations.

One question settles almost every hand at the margin here. Would you be content if the next player 3-bet you? If not, it is not an open.

UTG opening range, 6-max cash, 100bb. PlusEV solver data, exported 2026-09-03
AAAKsAQsAJsATsA9sA8sA7sA6sA5sA4sA3sA2s
AKoKKKQsKJsKTsK9sK8sK7sK6sK5sK4sK3sK2s
AQoKQoQQQJsQTsQ9sQ8sQ7sQ6sQ5sQ4sQ3sQ2s
AJoKJoQJoJJJTsJ9sJ8sJ7sJ6sJ5sJ4sJ3sJ2s
AToKToQToJToTTT9sT8sT7sT6sT5sT4sT3sT2s
A9oK9oQ9oJ9oT9o9998s97s96s95s94s93s92s
A8oK8oQ8oJ8oT8o98o8887s86s85s84s83s82s
A7oK7oQ7oJ7oT7o97o87o7776s75s74s73s72s
A6oK6oQ6oJ6oT6o96o86o76o6665s64s63s62s
A5oK5oQ5oJ5oT5o95o85o75o65o5554s53s52s
A4oK4oQ4oJ4oT4o94o84o74o64o54o4443s42s
A3oK3oQ3oJ3oT3o93o83o73o63o53o43o3332s
A2oK2oQ2oJ2oT2o92o82o72o62o52o42o32o22
FoldRaise 2.5

Hijack: one fold changes things

One seat closer to the button, one fewer opponent to dodge. The hijack adds more suited hands and the stronger offsuit broadways, reaching 21.6% of all hands.

The shortcut worth remembering: pair, broadway or suited. Almost nothing outside those three descriptions belongs in an opening range from here.

Hijack opening range, 6-max cash, 100bb. PlusEV solver data, exported 2026-09-03
AAAKsAQsAJsATsA9sA8sA7sA6sA5sA4sA3sA2s
AKoKKKQsKJsKTsK9sK8sK7sK6sK5sK4sK3sK2s
AQoKQoQQQJsQTsQ9sQ8sQ7sQ6sQ5sQ4sQ3sQ2s
AJoKJoQJoJJJTsJ9sJ8sJ7sJ6sJ5sJ4sJ3sJ2s
AToKToQToJToTTT9sT8sT7sT6sT5sT4sT3sT2s
A9oK9oQ9oJ9oT9o9998s97s96s95s94s93s92s
A8oK8oQ8oJ8oT8o98o8887s86s85s84s83s82s
A7oK7oQ7oJ7oT7o97o87o7776s75s74s73s72s
A6oK6oQ6oJ6oT6o96o86o76o6665s64s63s62s
A5oK5oQ5oJ5oT5o95o85o75o65o5554s53s52s
A4oK4oQ4oJ4oT4o94o84o74o64o54o4443s42s
A3oK3oQ3oJ3oT3o93o83o73o63o53o43o3332s
A2oK2oQ2oJ2oT2o92o82o72o62o52o42o32o22
FoldRaise 2.5

Cutoff: where wide begins

Two players left to beat, and position on one of them guaranteed. The cutoff is the first seat where the range starts to look aggressive to an untrained eye: suited connectors, weaker aces, hands UTG wouldn’t consider. It reaches 28.5% of all hands, and what survives the widening is overwhelmingly suited, because those hands make something after the flop rather than relying on everyone folding.

Cutoff opening range, 6-max cash, 100bb. PlusEV solver data, exported 2026-09-03
AAAKsAQsAJsATsA9sA8sA7sA6sA5sA4sA3sA2s
AKoKKKQsKJsKTsK9sK8sK7sK6sK5sK4sK3sK2s
AQoKQoQQQJsQTsQ9sQ8sQ7sQ6sQ5sQ4sQ3sQ2s
AJoKJoQJoJJJTsJ9sJ8sJ7sJ6sJ5sJ4sJ3sJ2s
AToKToQToJToTTT9sT8sT7sT6sT5sT4sT3sT2s
A9oK9oQ9oJ9oT9o9998s97s96s95s94s93s92s
A8oK8oQ8oJ8oT8o98o8887s86s85s84s83s82s
A7oK7oQ7oJ7oT7o97o87o7776s75s74s73s72s
A6oK6oQ6oJ6oT6o96o86o76o6665s64s63s62s
A5oK5oQ5oJ5oT5o95o85o75o65o5554s53s52s
A4oK4oQ4oJ4oT4o94o84o74o64o54o4443s42s
A3oK3oQ3oJ3oT3o93o83o73o63o53o43o3332s
A2oK2oQ2oJ2oT2o92o82o72o62o52o42o32o22
FoldRaise 2.5

Button: the widest open

Only the blinds remain. You will act last on every street for the rest of the hand. The button opens 40.5% of all starting hands. That is 538 combinations, well over twice UTG’s range. If that still feels reckless, the positions guide explains why it’s the opposite.

One warning that matters more here than anywhere else. Opening this wide only pays if you have a plan for the 3-bet. Open 40% and then fold to every raise from the big blind and you have handed back exactly what the seat earned you, which is the most common way this chart gets misused.

Button opening range, 6-max cash, 100bb. PlusEV solver data, exported 2026-09-03
AAAKsAQsAJsATsA9sA8sA7sA6sA5sA4sA3sA2s
AKoKKKQsKJsKTsK9sK8sK7sK6sK5sK4sK3sK2s
AQoKQoQQQJsQTsQ9sQ8sQ7sQ6sQ5sQ4sQ3sQ2s
AJoKJoQJoJJJTsJ9sJ8sJ7sJ6sJ5sJ4sJ3sJ2s
AToKToQToJToTTT9sT8sT7sT6sT5sT4sT3sT2s
A9oK9oQ9oJ9oT9o9998s97s96s95s94s93s92s
A8oK8oQ8oJ8oT8o98o8887s86s85s84s83s82s
A7oK7oQ7oJ7oT7o97o87o7776s75s74s73s72s
A6oK6oQ6oJ6oT6o96o86o76o6665s64s63s62s
A5oK5oQ5oJ5oT5o95o85o75o65o5554s53s52s
A4oK4oQ4oJ4oT4o94o84o74o64o54o4443s42s
A3oK3oQ3oJ3oT3o93o83o73o63o53o43o3332s
A2oK2oQ2oJ2oT2o92o82o72o62o52o42o32o22
FoldRaise 3

Small blind: wide but conflicted

Folded to the small blind, only one opponent remains, but you’ll be out of position against them for the whole hand, which is why this chart looks different in kind from the others, not just in size. The blinds guide covers why this seat loses money for everyone and how to lose the least.

It is also the only chart on this page that limps. The small blind plays 55.8% of hands, but raises just 26.1% of them and calls with the other 29.7%. Those split cells are a genuine mixed strategy, not a rounding artifact: some hands are too good to fold and too awkward to raise from out of position, so the range calls instead. Every other chart above is raise or fold.

Small blind vs big blind, folded to the small blind, 6-max cash, 100bb. PlusEV solver data, exported 2026-09-03
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AQoKQoQQQJsQTsQ9sQ8sQ7sQ6sQ5sQ4sQ3sQ2s
AJoKJoQJoJJJTsJ9sJ8sJ7sJ6sJ5sJ4sJ3sJ2s
AToKToQToJToTTT9sT8sT7sT6sT5sT4sT3sT2s
A9oK9oQ9oJ9oT9o9998s97s96s95s94s93s92s
A8oK8oQ8oJ8oT8o98o8887s86s85s84s83s82s
A7oK7oQ7oJ7oT7o97o87o7776s75s74s73s72s
A6oK6oQ6oJ6oT6o96o86o76o6665s64s63s62s
A5oK5oQ5oJ5oT5o95o85o75o65o5554s53s52s
A4oK4oQ4oJ4oT4o94o84o74o64o54o4443s42s
A3oK3oQ3oJ3oT3o93o83o73o63o53o43o3332s
A2oK2oQ2oJ2oT2o92o82o72o62o52o42o32o22
FoldCallRaise 3

Why the same hand flips between charts

Scan any middling hand, K9s, A5o or 76s, across the five grids and watch it flip from blue to red as the button approaches. None of them changed in raw strength: run any of them through the equity calculator and the number is the same from every seat. The cards never change; the number of players left to act and your position after the flop do. Those middling hands are also the ones players get wrong most often, far more than the genuinely worst hands. That one observation is preflop strategy. Everything else is detail.

Do the charts change with stack size or game type?

Yes, and it’s worth knowing when these five stop applying:

  • Full ring (9-max) adds three earlier seats that open tighter than UTG here; the late-position charts stay close.
  • Short stacks push ranges toward all-in-or-fold, which is push/fold territory.
  • Tournaments add antes and ICM pressure, both of which reshape every chart.
  • Live low-stakes games rarely punish small deviations, but the charts remain the baseline you deviate from, on purpose, rather than by drift.

These grids are the 6-max, 100bb cash baseline: the GTO starting point. Every spot we have exported, including the 3-bet and defence charts this page does not cover, is in the chart library.

Reading charts is not the same as knowing them

Here’s the uncomfortable part. You can bookmark this page today, agree with every grid, and still open K9s from under the gun on Friday night, because recognising a range on a page and recalling it in three seconds with money in the pot are different skills, and only the second one earns.

Closing the gap is a repetition problem, not a reading problem. The PlusEV trainer deals you these exact spots, scores your answer against the charts above, and re-queues your misses on a spaced-repetition schedule until they stop being misses. Across 1,043,612 measured post-training hands, players who drilled this way improved by +0.061 BB per hand: the difference between owning the charts and owning the habit.

Study the grids here for free, as long as you like. When you want them to survive contact with a real table, that’s what the trainer is for.