Squeeze Play Called. Give It Up on the Flop?

[Chicos75]

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t200 (9 handed) internettexasholdem.com

MP2 (t2400)
MP3 (t3750)
CO (t6890)
Button (t28963)
SB (t3550)
Hero (t9985)
UTG (t11297)
UTG+1 (t11155)
MP1 (t3325)

Preflop: Hero is BB with J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">5 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">CO raises to t600</font>, Button calls t600, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t4000</font>, CO calls t3400, Button calls t3400.

Flop: (t12100) T[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 5[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets t5985 (All-In)</font>, CO calls t2890 (All-In), Button folds.

Turn: (t20975) 9[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players, 2 all-in)</font>

River: (t20975) 2[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players, 2 all-in)</font>

Final Pot: t20975

[SossMan]

I don't like squeezing there. I don't mind a fold or a flat call, but there isn't really a good reraise size given your stack.

[Chicos75]

Would re-raising less be better? 2400?

[NoahSD]

Why raise that much? t2400 is the standard raise here.. you raised twice that for almost half your stack. I don't like the idea of a squeeze play with AJ either as you're basically getting called only by hands that beat you. This is a fold or a call preflop.

[ad617]

First, stack sizes are too awkward to pull a squeeze. You need to be in the Green Zone to pull this move correctly. Other than position, did you have any indication that these players would be moving with weaker hands and then folding to raises from the blind.

Most importantly, AJo is a marginal holding since you're OOP. You want to pull the squeeze with your monsters and trash to get the most benefit from the move. You can't just pull this move because you feel like it.

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[nath]

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I don't like squeezing there. I don't mind a fold or a flat call, but there isn't really a good reraise size given your stack.

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This I agree with. The other explanations I don't.

A squeeze isn't terrible here usually. But with your stack, it's really dangerous, and difficult to pick a raise size you'd be happy with. It's not bad because you have AJo; it's bad because you have ~50BB. If you had less and could justify pushing all in, great. If you had more and could make a subsequent flop push big enough to get your opponents to fold, great.

I'd call here.