There are cash game RFI (Raise First In) charts, and tournament push/fold charts. For cash games, there are charts for games with and without rake, and with and without a straddle (third blind). The tournament charts are push/fold for 5-15BB in a a BB ante format, the most common format for live No-Limit Hold'em tournaments today. The positions are the Small Blind, Button, Cutton, Hijack, Lojack, MP (Lojack-1), and EP (Lojack-3). The free demo version before the In-App Purchase contains tournament charts 7-9BB for Small Blind, Button, and Cutoff. The subscription unlocks all the charts. More charts such as cash game 3-bet charts and vs 3-bet charts are planned for the future. Email admin@aceupmysleeve.app if interested in specific charts.

The charts are free on iOS (iPhone). A $19.99 In-App Purchase unlocks all charts (cash RFI and tournament push/fold) for watchOS as an annual subscription.

The subscription also unlocks any new charts that are added in the future. More charts such as cash game 3-bet charts and vs 3-bet charts are planned for the future.

Nash equilibrium is a concept in game theory that describes a set of strategies, one for each player, where no player has anything to gain by changing their strategy unilaterally.

In a poker tournament, once you are sufficiently short stacked (under 12BB, and possibly under 15BB), you usually only want to consider going all-in or folding. Computer simulations can be run to determine the Nash equilbrium of the optimal set of hands to go all-in with, assuming your opponents are optimally calling you.

In practice, your opponents may not be calling you with the optimal range, in which case the Nash strategy is sub-optimal. You could instead design a pushing range that exploits your opponent's calling tendencies, though by doing so you yourself become exploitable. In practice, the Nash equilbrium strategies serve as a reasonable baseline strategy, and the best strategy at sufficiently advanced games.

Preflop Nash charts are helpful for a very specific set of circumstances - playing "all-in" or fold when you are desperately short-stacked at a tournament. They will not magically make you a winning player at the very complex game of No-Limit hold'em . Please gamble responsibly and remember that there is a lot of luck in poker.

First, select the number of Big Blinds you have. Second, select your position. See this guide on poker positions if you're unfamiliar with the terminology.

Once you're on the chart page, you should see a list of ranges. The format is the pairs first, then the offsuite Aces, the suited Aces, the offsuit Kings, the suited Kings, etc. "Suited" means both cards have the same suit, such as hearts, spades, clubs, or diamonds. Those hands are postfixed with an "s". Offsuit hands are post-fixed with an "o". So QTs means a Queen and a Ten of the same suit, while QTo means a queen and a ten of different suits.

For each hand category, the chart provides the worst hand played. For example, if the first hand is "44+", that means you go all-in with a pair of 4s or any pair higher than a 4 such as a pair of sixes. Likewise, if the worst offsuit Ace is A5o+, that means you go-all in with any Ace and any card bigger or equal to a 5, such as A-9 offsuit. If you can't find the hand category, it means you fold all hands in that category.

For suited Aces and suited Aces only, sometimes you go all-in with a smaller sidecard and not with a bigger sidecard, such as A5s but not A6s. This is because Aces can be played as low for straight so A5 can flop a straight (234) but A6 cannot, so A5s can be a stronger hand than A6s.

Let's walk through an example : "44+, A9s+, A5s, AJo+, KJo+, K8s+, QJo, Q9s+, J9s+, T9s". In this example, you would go all-in with a pair of 4s to a pair of Aces (44+), any Ace with a suited card bigger than a nine (A9s+), an Ace with a 5 suited (A5s), any Ace with a Jack or bigger (AJo+), any King with a Jack or bigger (KJo+), any King with a suited 8 or bigger (K8s+), any Queen with a Jack (QJo), any Queen with a suited 9 or bigger (Q9s+), any Jack with a suited 9 or bigger (J9s+), and a Ten and Nine suited (T9s). You would fold hands like a Jack and a Ten offsuit (missing), and you would fold any unpaired hand without at least one card bigger than a Ten (missing).

If game integrity is the highest priority, all electronic devices should be banned. Any concerns about preflop charts hurting game integrity should be dwarfed by concerns of collusion, which is an infinitely bigger threat to game integrity.

For example, suppose an early postion player folds the Ace of hearts and 3 of spades. His collusion partner sees the flop, which has three hearts, meaning the best possible hand ("the nuts") requires the Ace of hearts to complete the flush. If the collusion partner has an Apple Watch and sees a text that the Ace of hearts is dead, this is a massively advantageous piece of information since he knows his opponents can not have the nuts and he can safely represent the nuts himself. Collusion is an infinitely bigger threat to game integrity than preflop charts. Any player can memorize a chart, and many professional players do, but collusion introduces truly unfair advantages to the game.

For better or worse, game integrity is already threatened by electronic devices and Ace Up My Sleeve does not meaningfully change that.

In practice, there's a balance between game integrity and game friendliness, and most cardrooms allow electronic devices at the table despite the serious risks such as collusion.

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