Push-fold chart - when to shove short-stacked
Once your stack drops under 15 big blinds, your first move into the pot usually isn't a sized raise - it's straight to all-in or fold: there's barely anything left to play post-flop, so splitting the bet doesn't make sense. That's push-fold - one decision, no streets after it. Below is a reference chart for which hands to shove first into the pot, by position and stack depth.
When this chart applies
When everyone's folded to you and your stack is 0 to 14 big blinds. Deeper than 15 BB it's a regular open-raise instead - that's a separate "opening" chart. HJ plays the same column as CO here - there's no separate one for it.
These ranges are taken from Nash push-fold charts and checked against public ones: this spot is solved math, there are no solver disagreements here. From 15 blinds push-fold no longer applies - that's regular opening territory (chart above). HJ plays the CO chart.
In numbers
At 10 BB or less (the short band), shoving from UTG covers roughly 14.5% of hands, while from the BTN it's already about 52.9%: the later your seat, the less reason to wait for a stronger hand - almost no one's left to act behind you.
How this works in Whygrid
When you shove all-in first into the pot on a short stack, the coach checks your hand against this exact chart - not a gut call. If the shove is noticeably wider than the norm, the coach asks why you picked that hand instead of just calling it a mistake outright.
The rest of the charts - opens, BB defense, 3-bet, calling a shove - live on the charts page See the charts
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