[TomBrooks]

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BTW, how do you beat this kind of squeeze?

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You don't really have to beat them if they keep playing like they did in the hand the OP described - they beat themselves. Do you see why?

By playing one strong hand and one weak hand backing up the strong hand, we can safely assume the weak hand will rarely win and is putting almost dead money into the pot.

Then what happens is that everytime one of them wins, as a pair they just break even. One player gets his money back, the other loses his money, and the winner gets an equal amount of money from one other player. Combined result = 0.

Everytime they lose, together they lose twice as much money as they would have if only one of them played.

As long as you realize this is what they are doing, your a favorite, all other things being equal, to take all their money after a while. And from the description of the situation, it seems like they didn't even realize what they were doing to themselves.

If you didn't realize what they were doing however, and somehow you thought you had two strong hands against you, they might get you to fold incorrectly and take your money that way. The OP was protecting the newbies at the table, not himself. Ironically, he was also protecting these two guys from themselves, although at the time they didn't appreciate it.