djgolfcan;246514 wroteWhat do you do when the antes kick in ? E.G. You have a stack of $6000 chips, blinds are $100 / $200 - so you have 30 big blinds and an M of 20 - next level is $100 / $200 ante $25 - now you still have 30 big blinds but an M of less than 12 (at a 9 handed table).
That's a big difference when deciding what hands to play.
Im not sure why we would even want to think about hand playing ranges pre ante. I mean in most MTT we're talking level 4 so its rarely ever something we need to consider.
For the purpose of analyzing BB shove/call ranges antes are always assumed to be in.