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POSITION. PATIENCE. A PLAN.

Give your opening range shape.

Explore all 169 starting-hand classes. Change position, select a hand, and learn how combinations fit into a range.

Illustrative, not solver-verified. Six-handed cash games · 100 BB effective · Everyone folds to you · Raise-first-in only. Rake, opponents, mixed strategies and small-blind limping are not modelled. These simplified ranges are intentionally conservative and are not a recommendation for facing a raise.
21.9% of combinations
Illustrative raise Fold / outside example range

Diagonal: pairs · Above diagonal: suited (s) · Below diagonal: offsuit (o). Select a cell for details.

POSITION CHANGES EVERYTHING

Fewer players behind.
More room to open.

Early positions generally need stronger hands because more players can respond. On the button, you also have position after the flop. The small blind remains out of position, so this example uses a tighter set than the button.

Read the chart in context.

The percentage counts actual card combinations (6 for a pair, 4 suited, 12 offsuit) out of 1,326 possible starting hands—not the fraction of coloured squares.

There is no big-blind first-in chart: if everyone, including the small blind, folds, the big blind wins the pot without taking an opening action. Different charts are needed against limps or raises.