Squeeze Plays

[Speedlimits]

A squeeze play is a play that occurs pre flop. Usually it happens when there is an initial raiser, a caller (can be more than one) and then a "squeezer." These plays are designed to take the money without seeing a flop by offering low implied odds.


Player A raises, Player B calls and Player C comes over the top of both of them. This is a Squeeze Play.

NOW, You should be "Squeezing" with two types of hands. First the most obvious are your PREMIUMS (AA-1010 AK, AKs, sometimes AQs) you want to get value out of these hands and the more money you get in pre flop, the easier it is to play them.

Contrary to what STOX POKER (bad training video site) said in his recent training video you do NOT want to be Squeezing with your best hands AND very worst of hands. This is misinformation.

You want to be squeezing with your BEST HANDS and Top Tier hands that you WOULD HAVE FOLDED OTHERWISE.

Example:

Player A raises, Player B calls,

You are player C and you hold Q8s.

You CAN RAISE. The reason you are raising your top tier FOLDABLE hands is because IF you are called you still have a DECENT chance to make a hand. If you listen to Stoxpoker you will be raising with 23offsuit and be c-betting on a COMPLETE BLUFF.

So in conclusion,

Squeeze with your PREMIUMS and TOP TIER FOLDABLES. And don't overdo it, I see people trying to squeeze too much and they get called down very light.

Thank you.

[carrotsnake]

lol ? I dunno what to say. I'm so confused

[Al_Money]

So you shouldn't squeeze with medium/low pocket pairs, suited connectors, etc, but rather with Q8s and the like?

[Speedlimits]

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So you shouldn't squeeze with medium/low pocket pairs, suited connectors, etc, but rather with Q8s and the like?

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Just call with medium/low pocket pairs/suited connectors. There value comes from seeing a flop not NOT seeing one.

[ReptileHouse]

Wow.... just.... wow.

There's a difference between a squeeze play and 3-betting light, dude.

[Speedlimits]

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Wow.... just.... wow.

There's a difference between a squeeze play and 3-betting light, dude.

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Yeah 3 betting light is done on one raiser and no previous callers.

A squeeze play is done on one raiser and one or multiple callers.

Get out of here with your condescending sh.it you should be thanking me for posting this.

[carrotsnake]

Weren't you the one who posted about how 600 nl is so easy too ? As well as 1k ? I'm very confused. Why aren't you beating these games if your going to talk down to all of us poor ssnl grinders ? [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Keyser.]

I think I'm on stoxpoker's side on this one. I've never seen his videos or anything but I imagine he's not saying you should squeeze every time you get 23o, just that 23o has very little straight up value so it has more bluff value instead.

Anyway, why do you capslock every third word? And quit being a troll.

btw, if you're squeezing at 50nl you're probably spewing.

[Claunchy]

I still don't understand why squeezing with Q8s isn't a pure bluff. You don't think pretty much everything that calls a PF 3-bet has this crushed?

Squeezing's overrated anyway, especially since all the aggro "I-just-learned-how-to-play-TAG" donks think you're squeezing every time you 3-bet OOP anyway.

[Kilillan]

And Harrington explained the entire idea of squeeze plays better. I think he even came up with the name