My first ever squeeze in a tourney

[PoBoy321]

How's this look? Standard? Spewy? Should the raise be larger?

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t100 (9 handed) converter

SB (t3855)
BB (t3300)
UTG (t2963)
UTG+1 (t6914)
MP1 (t3300)
MP2 (t5850)
MP3 (t5525)
CO (t313)
Hero (t5355)

Preflop: Hero is Button with 5[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">UTG+1 raises to t500</font>, MP1 calls t500, <font color="#666666">3 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t1600</font>

[cbiz]

reads? and i think you need to raise more

[PoBoy321]

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reads? and i think you need to raise more

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New to the table. No read on MP1. UTG+1 had just won a huge pot to get his big stack and was starting to get a bit overaggro.

[CieloAzor]

When UTG+1 raises to 5xBB, I tend to believe him, unless I've got a pretty good reason not to. Seems spewy.

[uclabruinz]

No likey.

[Lloyd]

Ehhhhhhh, I don't know. Lots of missing info for starters. Buy-in? Reads? Did the fact you had A5s play any factor (it shouldn't for a squeeze and in fact I'd prefer to push with 65s then A5s). The raise is pretty small which I don't like, but kind of do. It definitely looks like you're trying to get some action. A normal raise would essentially be a push because of the stack sizes involved. But understand that you're pretty much pot committed by making that small raise. It's also a little riskier to make this move on the button then in the blinds.

But at the end of the day, it worked. So for whatever reason you made this play it was the right reason.

[cbiz]

if his standard preflop raise with 5x I like it as long as you raise to something liek 2000+, 1600 just doesn't seem to have any fold equity.

[Lloyd]

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if his standard preflop raise with 5x I like it as long as you raise to something liek 2000+, 1600 just doesn't seem to have any fold equity.

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That was my first reaction as well. But because of the stack sizes raising to 1600 essentially says that you're pot committed so it has more folding equity than if the stacks were much deeper.

[uclabruinz]

I don't like making this move, at all, with A5. A 5xBB early raise smells like AJ+ to me, and although you have FE you need to make the bet big enough to hurt both players, which (with your stack) means committing yourself to this hand. I would like this much better with 78s through JTs or something along those lines.

[Max Weinberg]

If you're going to do it, commit to it and raise like half your stack or more.

However at 50/100 this is going to crash and burn a majority of the time.