Defense against the squeeze play...

[Garland]

In a local casino, I’m playing $40/$80 limit 3 or 4-handed and sitting in the 9 seat. Next two players comes a man and a woman. They could be a couple, but they are at the very least friends as they are often whispering in each other’s ears between plays. By their play, they clearly aren’t passive or very fishy, nor are they soft playing each other either.

So the woman sits in the 8 seat to my right and the man sits in the 7 seat two to my right. And when it’s my big blind and it’s folded to the button, the guy raises his button, and the woman looks at her cards from SB and 3-bets, and I fold my trash and they play out their hand (no showdown). Ok, no problem there.

But then it happens again. And again. And again. No less than 4 times within say 45 minutes.

So basically I’m feeling squeezed and other than simply racking up and leaving is there any rational and reasonable defense here?

FWIW, the rule in this casino is when it gets short-handed, you cannot change seats.

Garland