NL100: Squeezeplay spot
 

D - 34/11/2-94 - 27% steal
SB - 56/20/5-41


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SB: $105.65
Hero (BB): $98.43
UTG: $100
CO: $149.51
BTN: $131.75

Pre-Flop: 3[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] dealt to Hero (BB)
2 folds, <font color="red">BTN raises to $4</font>, SB calls $3.50, <font color="red">


If I want to do a squeeze play here, how much should I raise?

What hands is good squeezeplay hands?

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When you do a squeeze play, the first thing to consider is not your hand, it's the players that already in the pot. In your case, 11% preflop raise and 27% steal is a little bit low for me. Plus, I'd rather squeeze with air than a semi-legit hand, especially Axs kind of hands to avoid domination.

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What do you think about my 3bet-size?

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Don't like squeezing here. He's not opening up too much on the button, and his high VPIP means we can assume, with lack of a better read, he may very well be calling reraises light.

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If you do I'd raise to 17

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this is not a good hand to squeeze with at all. id rather do it with a hand like 76 then A3 esp OOP

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this is not a good hand to squeeze with at all. id rather do it with a hand like 76 then A3 esp OOP

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I think it more comes down to it being the wrong opponents, this works better if it's a TAG raising on the button, here you're just too likely to get called.

I could see calling a taking a flop here though, if they play in a compatible way postflop. (IE. BTN isn't too agressive etc.)

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These are the wrong players to squeeze. I do like calling here though.

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These are the wrong players to squeeze. I do like calling here though.

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if i squeeze i make it 18-19$

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Thank you for the answers!

Is a 70% cbet frequency smart after a squeeze OOP gets called against regular TAG's?

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most of the times this is not the sopot where i squeeze. Just dont like doing it with a3s and the stealer doesnt have that wide of a range. However, plenty of times whjen the flow of the game dictates i make a squeeze here

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fwiw, i don't squeez against these players OOP and not with this hand imo

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Aquadougs lets say u squeez, and one or both villans call..

Flop comes Axx, what now ? If you bets and he goes AI, what then? even if he calls, what then? , this is going to be a bad situation. Avoid it! I would say call/fold with the hand.

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I don't like to squeeze here with A 3 suited, mainly because I think there is more potential in playing this pot three handed against a couple of pretty loose players.

Against these players in this spot, i would play the hand straightforward, so A 3 suited is a good multi wayhand, and you will play it for flush, straight, 2pair etc and extract value out of these villians as opposed to bluffing them.

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These are the wrong players to squeeze. I do like calling here though.

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Agreed.

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Aquadougs lets say u squeez, and one or both villans call..

Flop comes Axx, what now ? If you bets and he goes AI, what then? even if he calls, what then? , this is going to be a bad situation. Avoid it! I would say call/fold with the hand.

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What if they fold over half the time to my cbet? Then the cbet is profitable as a bluff. If they call (Axx), i can hit two pair, so 50% is not neccessary. Even if the cbet is unprofitable, it increases the EV of a future non-bluff cbet. I think many will fold often to a 3bet-cbet because of frequent failed setmining.

Im not saying that I know the answer, only trying to understand. Do I have a unbalanced weighting of the significant factors?

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Anyways, Im agreed that i should fold preflop in the situation above.

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Don't like squeezing here. He's not opening up too much on the button, and his high VPIP means we can assume, with lack of a better read, he may very well be calling reraises light.

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Spot on, I'd call here.
Squeeze bet size: I usually do pot+1 or 2 BB

If you somehow do squeeze and the 3bet is called I check an A high flop often fwiw to get more value out of 99+ pairs

Re: NL100: Squeezeplay spot
 

Axs sux in general and is def not squeezeworthy.

Depedning COMPLETELY on reads of villain(s) squeeze MP raisers onwards with callers with suited conns (56 at lowest), suited semiconns occasionally, mid pairs+ and AK. maybe AQs...