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Originally Posted by Avaritia
I've been studying my 3bet game as well and this spot in particular is troubling me. I feel like EVERY time I ep cold call I get squeezed. So UTG open I cc JJ in MP alot but get squeezed a ton.
I'd flat with hands that can almost always continue versus a squeeze (depending on sizing and who it is coming from). i.e. QQ-TT and AQs are decent flats in MP (they could also 3-bet to start with), as they play pretty well if UTG folds to the squeeze. Maybe you
are getting squeezed a lot, but it shouldn't really happen very often*, as the 3-bettor has to expect UTG to 4-bet pretty often. If villain is just a crazy aggro squeezer, then you've also got the option of back-raising like pokerarb said. You don't want to be flatting many
weak hands in MP in aggro games though, especially if the standard open is 3x.
I think you're more likely to get squeezed when you flat on the button, because your range is much weaker there, and that gives the SB/BB a prime squeezing spot, as you'd be folding to a squeeze more often.
* I haven't got my database open, but I think my cold-call percentage in MP is something like 2.5%. Since I'm not calling very often in the first place, the squeezing spots don't come up enough for me to be very concerned about how to react to them.