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Originally Posted by TheGodson
Something I have struggled with is what to do when you are the IP caller who capped their range and the first guy calls the squeeze. If I'm holding QJs or 66, should I be mucking those? Arty, it seems you are advocating a fold. Let's say the first guy folds. Then do those hands become calls?
Poker doesn't really work like this (MDF pre-flop is stupid imo), but most of the burden on "defending" vs the squeeze falls on the original raiser, so you don't 'have to' call very often when he folds.
You should only call with the hands that do well enough vs the squeezer, given the fact that he knows you capped your range by calling initially. Hands like QJs and 66 probably aren't good enough. Indeed, (according to Snowie) they are often 3-bets or folds vs the initial raise, partly because they don't do well if someone overcalls or squeezes. Snowie hardly ever goes CALL-CALL pre-flop. It usually has JJ/TT/99 or AQs when it does so, because those hands ARE good enough vs the squeezer. QJs or 66 apparently aren't going to win enough to break even, given the lower SPR, the "strong" range of the squeezer, and the "I am capped" range of the caller. That's the theory anyway. In the micros, the set-miners can't fold 77, and they somehow always seem to flop top set on 7xx when I have KK in a squeezed pot and I think I'm about to win a stack from JJ/TT. :/