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Old 08-02-2005, 12:38 PM
sekrah sekrah is offline
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Default Re: This is when you apply the squeeze play.

Calling is terrible. The only way you can win a pot is if you hit the flop hard, picked up a draw, and the two big stacks missed completely (unlikely and not good poker IMO.)

Raising to 1500 is terrible. If he comes over the top, you're already priced in, because you're no worse than 3:1 against any possible two cards our opponent might be holding (unless it was 7-7, very unlikely), and you could be as narrow as a dog as 1.5:1. The only play worse than raising to 1500, is folding after the opponent moved all-in over the top of the 1500 raise. If your raise is flat called, and you miss your flop (likely), you're bigtime screwed with only a handful of BB's left.

Push all-in and your opponent can only call with A-K, A-A, K-K, Q-Q, one of four possible hands (maybe J-J is he sucks) and based upon the read of our villain and the image of our Hero.. Push all-in is the only play here. (well you could definently fold, but I think you're passing up a tremendous +ChipEV opportunity folding, and you're already down under 20 BB, you'll need to make this move sooner or later, this is the perfect spot.)
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