SPOT PRINCIPLE
Suited coverage deepens; the weakest offsuit aces fall away. Width stays – the composition shifts suited.
Implied odds arrive. Every pocket pair and connected suited hand gains; weak offsuit broadways start bleeding reverse implied odds and get trimmed first.
The button is the best seat in poker, and it appreciates with every blind of depth: absolute position on every postflop street of a potentially enormous pot.
Assumes a live-standard open to ~4bb, raise-or-fold. In straddled games, halve your effective big blinds and read the chart at that depth.
Baseline assumptions: 9-handed · no ante · no straddle · 4bb opens · low-rake live structure · cold-calling allowed. Charts reduce low-frequency mixes to a single default action; adjust live for opponents and rake. Baseline v1 · updated 2026-08.