Squeezing

Originally Posted by eragotte

I'm basically just posting to mark this post and see what people say. I find a lot of people seem to squeeze on me a lot with mid suited connectors, dunno if theyre bad or that is good. Also I feel like a hand like AQ where you might call vs one raiser is a good squeeze because your top pair is a lot weaker vs two opponents? Dunno, but I am interested.

Looks like you're on to something here

When squeezing, it really comes down to your opponents range and his tendencies (ldo) but I can sort of give you a general approach...

OOP you should make your squeeze sizing a bit bigger than when IP (If PFR makes it 3bb, + 3bb caller I'd make it 12bb IP and 14bb OOP), and your typical hands (vs someone who's calling as a means of playing back at you) should be decent broadway type hands like KJ/KQ/AQ etc. (if anyone disagrees on why please provide me an explanation).

IP, when you squeeze (depending on the games you're playing in), you're more likely to face a 4bet or fold from villain, so having a hand that you aren't going to stack postflop isn't as important as just card removal (i.e A2 or K4). But again, this depends on how your opponents are reacting to your squeeze. If someone is calling your squeezes really light OOP, you can't really go wrong just squeezing alot unless they c/r lots of flops, in which case, you'll need to reduce your bluffing frequency.

Stack sizes change things alot...and you should probably adjust the types of hands you're going to squeeze given stack sizes to avoid things like bad ROI situations (i.e. not squeezing KJ oop deep etc) and revert back to more SC type hands that can put pressure on your opponents who float by picking up lots of good turn barrel cards or just getting those fit/fold types to fold the best hand alot on the flop.

This is already getting long and there are tons of ways to adjust your squeezing ranges/3bet ranges based on your opponents, how they play, how they perceive you, etc. so OP if you'd like to discuss this further you should come on into IRC or pm me for an IM addy.