Comments on: Poker Hand Review: AQ Squeeze Goes MW

By: SplitSuit

SplitSuit — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:59:58 +0000

generally I would advise against it. A big part of bluffing is knowing when to cut the loss and not amplify it. FR is full of one shot stabs because there such an ingrained threshold of commitment

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By: EN09

EN09 — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:47:35 +0000

interesting… i don’t feel i’m anywhere near good enough to be squeezing with AQo against a raiser and two flatters. i’d much rather do it with air – which is what i would be turning AQ into.

certainly, preflop the two flatters are of little concern as the actions of the original raiser are what we’re more interested in.

post flop, with two calling our squeeze, i’m chalking this up to an attempt to take it down which failed, and then waffling on whether to continue or not.

as a rule of thumb, reads/history aside, do you advocate cbetting most squeezes against 2+ callers?

By: SplitSuit

SplitSuit — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:47:04 +0000

We probably have slightly different goals. Mine is to:

1.) minimize loss when behind MP1 (I only fold out 60% of his range, and about 18% of it shoves…and the other 22% will call and be odd to play against). No reason to bloat when OOP against that

2.) if i get a HU pot with one of the through callers my life is cake. I will get folds about 70% against the CB (risking ~1/2PSB which needs to work 33% of the time, so i make about 40% equity on that bet which is sick sauce)

3.) math. risking ~7.5 to win $6.75 needs to work less often than $9.5 would

4.) apply pressure without overexerting or overexposing myself

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By: willwonka

willwonka — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:37:37 +0000

Wow.. I’m not a big fan of this hand.

To me, it all goes down to what we try to achieve while squeezing. Maybe you and I haven’t different purposes.

First off, I will say that I have no problems with squeezing with AQ; but my goal is to take the pot NOW… especially from the blinds as we all know AQ OOP is no fun to play. I feel you have to raise higher than that (again if the purpose is to take it down right now). The smaller raise can potentially make people make bad calls as with the case with the button.

So let’s talk about the button, he is getting almost 3.5 to call with 8 more in implied odds giving him almost 12 – 1. While I still think this is wrong and truly a thin call, had you squeezed for a higher amount, you can probably drive out mid to lower set mining hands. Against this guy.. who knows.

Post flop, I have no problems with bet sizing. Does a smaller bet give you the same information. Maybe, Mabye not. A smaller bet potentially puts pressure on you as you can more easily be raised.

Nice hand to post though. This is the same reason why I post hands everyday on my blog to get constructive feedback.