4. Conclusion

Naturally, it's not possible to memorize all the chart values. Online players have the advantage of being able to print out the charts and quickly check them in a critical situation.

If you are unable to evaluate your opponent's calling range due to lack of time or not enough revealed hands, it's always safe to pick the value from the column (SV), even if you do end up missing a few +EV pushes.

In conclusion let us examine the transition of these values onto other situations.

Cash games:
The chart values can be used in cash games without any restrictions, as Chip EV = $EV certainly applies. Thus you are able to push from the SB, provided that every player in front of you folded, according to the values, so e.g. with an actual stack of 53.6 BB with AT.

Most players won't feel good about this though, as you usually don't want to risk $100 (= 50 BB) in a $1/$2 cash game.

But on long term, this move is profitable in any case, even more so as the opponents will often muck dominating or tying hands (in the example of AT those would be AT, AJ, 22, 33, 44, 55...).

Tournaments apart of heads-ups:
In MTTs and SnGs, the situation outside of the heads-ups changes, as usually Chip EV = $EV no longer applies. Depending on the situation, the chart values thus have to be lowered for a push to still be +$EV, the higher the discrepancy between Chip EV and $EV is. More about this can be found in the article on ICM. Eventually there will be a second part of this article, in which the charts will be adjusted with ICM situations.

We want to specifically warn about using these charts for pushing at the bubble though.

Hero is on the button:
If you are not in the SB, but first to act on the button, you might consider a similar calculation. It will become more complicated though as now two players might call. A good approach for such a situation in a cash game is to divide the chart values by 2. For tournaments you have to pay heed to the ICM again.

Hero is in the BB:
Here the situation depends a lot on how we evaluate the opponent's limping. If we assume that he either raises or limps with any two, as he already did this in the previous 10 hands, we are able to push similarly to the values in the charts. Actually we can even do it for somewhat bigger stacks, as we won't only get 1.5 BB, but 2 BB. This then somewhat compensates the small probability of an opponent's trap.

If the opponent usually raised aggressively before and now suddenly only limps, you have to be careful. The increased danger of a trap could perhaps let the push become -EV with the chart values.