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Old 04-15-2008, 01:43 AM
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Default Situation with Squeeze spot

Ok here is the the situation. Your in the blinds and an aggro player opens from the co or button and a guy in front of you calls. You have a hand like A10, AJ, KQ and maybe 1010 . A good hand but also can be easily dominated. You have a decent aggro image yourself and the villain knows your capable of squeezing light. If thats not clear here is a quick hand that illustrates my point. Poonjockey is playing 22/20 and has been very aggro preflop and I'm running 26/24 also being pretty aggro preflop. No immediate history.

POKERSTARS GAME #16739060319: HOLD'EM NO LIMIT ($2/$4) - 2008/04/14 - 23:34:50 (ET)
Table 'Sigelinde' 6-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: Slowhand22 ($570.20 in chips)
Seat 2: mark775 ($400 in chips)
Seat 3: wasteofmoney ($253.40 in chips)
Seat 4: mortalwound ($349.35 in chips)
Seat 5: poonjockey ($404 in chips)
Seat 6: willycall ($414.55 in chips)
willycall: posts small blind $2
Slowhand22: posts big blind $4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Slowhand22 [Td Ac]
mark775: folds
wasteofmoney: folds
mortalwound: folds
poonjockey: raises $10 to $14
willycall: calls $12
Slowhand22:???

Whats the best way to play in these spot? I'm thinking an overcall might be best because the villain is capable of 4-betting and 4-bet shoving both for value and as a bluff.

Would it ever be correct to squeeze and get it in vs a four-bet? What if we had some immediate history and a more crazy preflop dynamic?
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Old 04-15-2008, 08:13 PM
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Ok - your ahead of the openers range a lot of the time and definately vs the caller. So I dont think folding is an option.

Therefore between calling and raising I think its an easy raise. You get the initiative so can take down the pot against AJ/AQ hands that miss. If you get called you have goodish equity and there is a lot of money already in the pot - say you squeeze to $60, you are betting 60 to win 28 so your squeeze need to work ~33% of the time to be profitable WITHOUT even seeing a flop
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Old 04-17-2008, 09:35 AM
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Squeezing is acceptable here, for sure. I'd go so far as to say given what's transpired in front of us, it's my standard.
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Old 04-17-2008, 10:49 AM
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yeah i squeeze here 100% with all the hands you mentioned. always stack off with tens, AJ KQ AT usually fold to shove (but not always! :P)

AQ is right on the fence usually
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Old 06-25-2008, 11:27 AM
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I think you shouldn't call here. You need much better hand. Folding is a solid option if you think they will play back against you. I would squeeze here pretty often but instafold if they are playing back. I think squeezing is best when you can also continue further. You won't lose so much value if you just lay down the hand.
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Old 06-28-2008, 01:31 PM
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I think you shouldn't call here. You need much better hand. Folding is a solid option if you think they will play back against you. I would squeeze here pretty often but instafold if they are playing back. I think squeezing is best when you can also continue further. You won't lose so much value if you just lay down the hand.
Is this a level? Because it's pretty wrong imo

I pretty much play it like Seabeast here. Squeeze/get it in with the TT usually squeeze/fold the other hands. AQ I'm most likely squeeze/calling as well given the read on CO.
Probably calling with the suited versions of KQ/AT etc because I don't want to "turn them into a bluff" and they play good 3handed and have too much value to not see a flop with.
I may be inclined to mix in more calls if the initial caller is fishy and folds to 3bets a lot. If he tends to be the type of villain that calls 3bets kinda wide (and sucks post) I'll usually 3bet all of these hands hoping to get HU with the fish (even OOP) or taking it down pre. We do have relative position after all, getting to see what the fish does isn't that bad and we can trap his money often.
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