If I understand this correctly, you should shove wider than Nash because people call too tightly. Therefore, more shoves get through.

I’m just working off my old SNG chart that I always think I have memorized until it’s time to need it 🙂 It says TT+ ATs+ AQo+ KJs+, but I try to widen it to 88+, suited broadways, A9s AJo+ KQo. There are 2 alterations to that:

*If I’m in over my head (let’s say deeper in a bigger tournament for me) I’ll be a little wider (unsuited broadways, a few more suited aces, 77)

*If I feel like I have an edge over the table (good table draw or early enough that I don’t know but maybe haven’t been running well), I’ll be an optimist and wait another orbit or two.

That’s all for brick and mortar. I’m a little more stubborn online with push/fold and would defer to my HUD back in the day. When I play online in Nevada I look at my notes because WSOP.com doesn’t allow HUDs.

it seems like none of the posters above really looks at the charts the way they should. 

These charts are all generated as a rough guideline on what is close to shove from a nash equilibrium point of view.

creating charts like that are not taking some very important factors into the decision (except for HU charts).

the most important factor they leave out are the stack distributions at the table. The ranges change quite significantly if there is a 2BB stack in SB/BB or if the stack in SB/BB has 100BB.

so the true nash range can only be calculated with a program like holdem resources or ICMizer. Doing a lot of these calculations over and over again in combination with the charts will develop your shortstack play. 

further they do not take players tendencies into account. I general players a re calling too tight thus it allows us to shove a bit wider especially from LP or it also allows us to r/f from LP with the weakest part of our shoving range and r/c with the top part.

so here is the strategy i use for my off the table analysis shoving:

1.) guess a shoving range and visualize it using Flopzilla

2.) compare the shoving range to my chart (created using holdem resources and stored as bookmarks in my browser) and adjust range above

3.) analyze hand in holdem resources with actual stack distribution. compare range to range generated in 1+2

4.) modify calling ranges and see how shoving ranges change.

and here is the strategy i use for my off the table analysis calling a shove:

1.) guess a calling range and visualize it using Flopzilla

2.) compare the calling range to my chart (created using holdem resources and stored as bookmarks in my browser) and adjust range above

3.) analyze hand in holdem resources with actual stack distribution. compare range to range generated in 1+2

4.) calculate ev of actual hand vs likely shoving range and see if its still +EV

hope this helps sharpen your short stack kung fu