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Free Heads-Up Push or Fold Poker

The last stage of a hold'em tournament, two players and short stacks, as a practice match in tournament chips against an opponent that plays the Nash chart, with every decision graded.

Play chips

1,000

No real money, no prizes, nothing to buy.

Opponent

1,000

Plays the Nash chart.

Tournament chips · Blinds 50 / 100

Opponent

Community cards
You

Pick a starting stack and start a match.

Session coach

Last round

Nothing played yet. After each of your hands the coach says what the round cost and what decided it.

Judge the decision, not the flip

When the chips go in here the two hands are usually close to even, so who wins one all-in says very little about who played it better. Nothing is bought or bet at this table, so the only thing worth tracking is whether each push, call and fold matched the chart. Real poker is played against people who do not follow a fixed chart, and this drill covers one narrow, solved corner of it.

Next bet

No bet lined up. Once there is one, its expected cost shows here before you play it.

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Chart coach

Every push, call and fold is checked against the Nash chart for the effective stack, and priced in chips against the range this opponent plays. At 10 big blinds the chart pushes 56.3% of hands from the button and calls with 36.3% in the big blind. The cards decide who wins an all-in. The decisions are the part you control.

See the whole push or fold chart this opponent plays

This session

Matches won
None finished
Hands played
0
Decisions on the chart
None yet
Expected value given up
0
chips, on 0 off-chart decisions

There is no house edge here. The match is zero-sum between two equal stacks: every chip one side wins, the other loses, and nothing is taken out. Expected value given up is the average cost of your off-chart decisions against this opponent's range, at 100 chips to the big blind. Matches won is shown for completeness and is mostly luck over a short run.

Built by Alexander Korsager · last updated October 3, 2026 · corrections

Of hands the chart pushes from the button at 10 big blinds
56.3%
Of hands the big blind calls with at 10 big blinds
36.3%
Of the pot the pushing range wins, on average, when called at 10
45%
Chance an equal player wins at least 4 of any 5 matches
19%

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A solved game, graded against its own chart

This is the one corner of poker that has been solved well enough to practice against a machine honestly.

When two players are left in a hold'em tournament and the stacks are short, the only sensible moves are all-in or fold, and that small game has a known equilibrium: a chart of which hands to push from the button and which to call with in the big blind. The opponent here plays that chart exactly, and the coach grades each of your decisions against the same one. There is no house and no house edge. The match is zero-sum between two equal stacks: every chip one side wins, the other loses.

The chart both sides play, at 10 big blinds

Button pushes

56.3% of hands

Big blind calls

36.3% of hands

  • All-in
  • Too close to call
  • Fold

Each square is one starting hand, from AA in the top left corner to 22 in the bottom right: pairs on the diagonal, suited hands above it, offsuit hands below.

Two things tend to surprise people.

The first is how loose correct play is: from the button the chart pushes 67.7% of hands at 6 big blinds, 56.3% at 10 and 43.0% at 15, because a push often takes the blinds uncalled and the hands are rarely far apart when it does not. The second is how little a result means. When a push at 10 big blinds is called, the pushing range wins about 45% of the pot on average, so most all-ins are close to a coin flip, and an equal player still wins at least 4 of any 5 matches about 19% of the time. The session panel counts decisions on the chart for that reason. Real poker is played against people who do not follow a fixed chart, and this drill covers one narrow part of it.

Hands the button pushes, by stack
  • 6 big blinds each67.7%

    The big blind calls with 54.4% of hands.

  • 10 big blinds each56.3%

    The big blind calls with 36.3% of hands.

  • 15 big blinds each43.0%

    The big blind calls with 27.9% of hands.

Shares of all starting hands the chart marks as a definite push or call. A full bar would be every hand.

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Rules at this table

  • 6 big blinds each

    Starting stack
    600 chips
    Blinds
    50 and 100
    Big blind calls with
    54.4% of hands

    Button pushes

    67.7%

    of starting hands, by the chart

  • 10 big blinds each

    Starting stack
    1,000 chips
    Blinds
    50 and 100
    Big blind calls with
    36.3% of hands

    Button pushes

    56.3%

    of starting hands, by the chart

  • 15 big blinds each

    Starting stack
    1,500 chips
    Blinds
    50 and 100
    Big blind calls with
    27.9% of hands

    Button pushes

    43.0%

    of starting hands, by the chart

  • Two players, one 52-card deck, shuffled before every hand. Both start the match with the same stack: 6, 10 or 15 big blinds each, your choice.
  • The blinds are 50 and 100 tournament chips and do not rise. The button posts the small blind and the other player posts the big blind. The button passes across after every hand, and a coin flip decides who has it first.
  • Each player gets two cards. The opponent's stay face down unless there is a showdown.
  • The button acts first and has two choices: move all-in, or fold and give up the small blind.
  • Facing a push, the big blind has two choices: call for the whole effective stack, or fold and give up the big blind.
  • The effective stack is the smaller of the two stacks. That is all either side can win or lose on a hand, and a bigger stack keeps the rest.
  • When the chips go in, both hands are turned up and 5 community cards are dealt. Each hand is the best five cards out of its seven, and the better hand takes the pot. Equal hands split it.
  • A stack of 50 chips or fewer is all-in from posting its blind, and the hand goes straight to a showdown. At 100 chips effective a push is no bigger than the big blind already posted, so only the button decides and a push is always called.
  • The match ends when one side holds every chip. A new match starts both sides level again.

  • There is nothing to buy and nothing to bet beyond the stack you start the match with.

    Enter
    Start a match, or deal the next hand
    P
    Push all-in
    A
    Also pushes all-in
    C
    Call
    F
    Fold

FAQ

Is this poker game played for real money?
No. The table uses play chips that have no value, cannot be bought, and cannot be cashed out or exchanged for anything. If you run out, you are handed another stack for free. There is no account and nothing to download.
How does the opponent play?
It plays the heads-up Nash push or fold chart for the hand's effective stack, and nothing else. On the button it pushes every hand the chart pushes and folds the rest. In the big blind it calls with every hand the chart calls with and folds the rest. A hand the chart marks too close to call it plays half the time. It never adapts to you, never bluffs outside the range, never looks at the score, and its cards stay hidden unless the hand goes to a showdown.
Does this game have a house edge?
No. Nothing is taken out of the pot and there is no bank to play against. Both sides start with the same stack, a coin flip gives the first button, and every chip you win is one the opponent loses. If you follow the chart you are playing the same strategy as the opponent, and each of you wins half the matches over a long run. Decisions off the chart cost chips on average, and the coach puts a number on each one.
Why does the chart push so many hands?
Because folding is not free. With short stacks the blinds are a large share of what each player holds, so every fold on the button gives up chips, and a push wins the blinds outright whenever the big blind folds. The big blind calls with 54.4% of hands at 6 big blinds, 36.3% at 10 and 27.9% at 15, so a push is often not called at all, and when it is, most hands still win a fair share of the time. Added up, that makes pushing better than folding for far more hands than most people expect.

How this game works

Every hand is dealt from one 52-card deck, shuffled in your browser with a Fisher-Yates shuffle so that every ordering is equally likely. All nine cards are fixed by that shuffle before anyone acts, and nothing about the deal depends on the stacks or the score. Hands are ranked by the same seven-card evaluator the poker hand odds tool uses, so the game and the tool cannot rank a hand differently.

The chart is not written on this page. It is solved, for the hand's effective stack, by the same solver as the push or fold chart tool, set to two players, no ante and chips instead of prize money. That solver sorts each of the 169 starting hands into push, fold or too close to call for the button, and call, fold or too close to call for the big blind. The opponent plays the definite hands always or never and the too-close hands half the time. The coach accepts either play on a too-close hand.

The chip figures the coach quotes are the average result of each choice against the range the opponent plays at that stack: the blind won when a push is folded to, plus the all-in result weighted by how often it is called. They are computed from the chart tool's table of all-in equities, which was simulated at 24,000 deals per pair of starting hands, to within 0.32 percentage points per pair. They are quoted to the whole chip and called "about" for that reason. Expected value given up, in the session panel, is the sum of that cost over your off-chart decisions.

Limits

  • The chart is solved for chips, not prize money. In a real tournament with payouts for more than one place, the right ranges are tighter, and the prize structure matters as much as the cards.
  • Like the chart, the chip figures weight the opponent's hands by how many ways each can be dealt and do not remove the two cards you hold, so they are close estimates, not exact values.
  • The opponent's range is the solved chart rounded to played, not played or half played. On a few borderline hands that makes the chart's play a fraction of a big blind worse against this exact opponent than the other play. The grade follows the chart, and nothing is counted as given up on those hands.
  • People do not play a fixed chart. Against an opponent who calls too much or too little the best play shifts, and nothing on this page practices reading one.
  • The blinds here never rise and there are only two moves. Real poker has deeper stacks, more players, betting on every street and a great deal this drill leaves out.
  • Tournament chips at a practice table do not feel like money. Pushing a weak hand is easy here and harder with something at stake.

This is a practice game for adults. It has no real-money play and links to none. Poker played for money is played against people, for stakes that can be lost, and knowing one chart does not make anyone a winner at it.

Gambling can cause serious harm. The National Problem Gambling Helpline is free, confidential and open 24/7, call or text 1-800-MY-RESET (1-800-697-3738), or chat at ncpgambling.org/chat.

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