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Originally Posted by dgiharris
As long as the pot has 4 or more limpers in it, we can squeeze.
Or put another way. If you frequently encounter these sorts of situations where 5, 6, or 7 players limp into a straddled pot (or a pot builder weak sauce raised pot) and you have a chance to close the action, you should be squeezing like florida orange juice with a plan to fire a decent bet (1.5 x the squeeze) on 100% of all flops if you get called by 2 players or less.
Personally, I'm comfortable squeezing with a range as low as 98s+, 88+.
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Anyways, I'm adamant about this point. There are certain tools we need to have in our bag of tricks and squeezing is definitely one of them. If you are NOT squeezing regularly then you are missing some serious +EV spots that will not only provide immediate chips to your stack but will also augment your overall game increasing your deception as well as your ability to get paid off on your big hands.
A little follow-up here:
I tried this out last Friday. Been on a winning streak and figured I had some leeway to run an experiment. A few notes:
I did it with ATC (did not wait for 98s) Not sure if that's spew or not, but I feel like the players + my image matter a lot more than the cards here.
All of these were from the blinds. Wondering how often I should do this on the button. I guess the disadvantage of squeezing from the button is that the blinds/straddle might wake up with hands; if you squeeze from the BB over a bunch of limpers you really only have to worry about the straddler who is holding ATC. At some point, I may try a session where I call with my decent hands and 3-bet all of my monsters and some of my rags.
I tried it in un-straddled pots. I raised to $45 in unstraddled pots and $55 in straddled pots. Not sure if risking 15bb to win 5bb (unstraddled pot) is +EV or not.
I was winning at the time. I think this is very important. I will never do this when losing.
Like most "moves," it's probably only good after you know the players. Who is fit-or-fold, who's a calling station, etc. This allows us to make the correct decisions if we get called.
Here are the results of my first experiment:
1/3 NL.
1st opportunity, straddled to $6, four limpers to me in the BB, I raise to $60 with rags. All folds. +10bb
Cool. I thought $55 might work better because of the extra syllable, and might save me $5 in risk. I lowered it to that from here on.
A bit later, I get KK in an unstraddled pot that's 3-limped to me and raise $45, get a caller who folds to my c-bet on the flop (I showed). ~+32bb
Next: 5-Limped, not straddled, pot. Raise it up to $40 with unsuited disconnectors, a fit-or-fold player calls, folds to my c-bet. ~+16bb
Next: 4-limped, straddled pot. I raise to $55 with T2o. (I remember this hand because it was the worst one I squeezed with.) See the flop OOP against two calling stations, whiff, check, they bet, I fold, -18bb.
So overall this made me 8bb over 6 hours, 40bb if you include the KK hand. Small sample size obv, but I plan on doing this some more, when I'm winning. And probably not with T2o....I think it was going to my head at that point.