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The Squeeze Play

Posted on Mon Mar 31, 2008 09:16:39 AM
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The squeeze play has a bit of a daring and clever feel to it. It’s a bluff (or semi-bluff) perpetrated against not one, but several opponents. Someone bets, one or more players call, then you raise. When it works, you feel like a champ, and you rake a big pot. ...

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6 Responses to “The Squeeze Play”

jamleeco
@ Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:27:04 AM
1

You meant the $150 to be $110, right? Not vice versa.

SelfMade
@ Mon Mar 31, 2008 02:20:07 PM
2

Isn’t it $140 to win $105? Not quite as good odds.

Steve Boyd
@ Mon Mar 31, 2008 05:00:47 PM
3

I see something close to this play a lot in NL10. 7 people will limp and then one of the blinds will raise pre-flop to about 7-9BB (2-5bb is a standard raise) and the entire table folds virtually everytime.

And even if there are any call, c-bets tend to be far stronger when the bet is a decent chunk of your stack.

Nico
@ Mon Mar 31, 2008 07:11:11 PM
4

“The call-reraise play on a 6-6-5 flop was unmistakably a huge hand: a full house”

Full house? Really?

5

[...] calling he sweetens the pot if the first player wants to call and creates a prime opportunity for a squeeze play, which is what Adamic [...]

SteveO
@ Thu Apr 03, 2008 10:23:51 AM
6

Is the squeeze play even better when you are squeezing WITH position? That way, the initial raiser has one less reason to call - i.e. he won’t even have position.

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