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SNG Sueeze Play (how do you do it)

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  1. Skoky Skoky is offline

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    Jan 11th, 2006 (1/11/2006 4:03pm)

    Help please

    Sueeze Play; Stop n go play and Steam raise

    What are they and how do you do them in sng's. If there are P5 articles about them please tell me what their title is and who author is

    BTW apart from poker books my game owes 70% of its improvement to the kindly help of fellow p5vers
  2. gidders gidders is offline

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    Jan 11th, 2006 (1/11/2006 4:23pm) in reply to Skoky

    Squeeze Play: When there is a raise (preferably from LP as it could be a position raise), and a call infront of you - you push all in (usually from the blinds). This forces the initial raiser to call knowing he may get called behind him - he'll usually fold unless he's big. The caller is now forced to call a large bet when all he wanted to do was call the inital raise and see a flop. It's effective when you have a big enough stack to push out your opponents, as you still have Fold Equity.

    Stop And Go: Calling a raise from out of position (first to act on the flop) and betting the flop hard, forcing your opponent who raised (and probably missed the flop) to react to your bet.

    Steam Raise: When you lose a big pot or lose a hand to a bad beat, and making an Over Raise on the next hand because you are "steaming" about the previous hand. This works well when you happen to pick up a good hand and you can sell it to your table that you are Steaming.

    Sorry - that should read Sueeze Play. :)
  3. MR04 MR04 is offline

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    Jan 11th, 2006 (1/11/2006 4:28pm) in reply to gidders

    Stop and go has some mathematical applications. More or less you assume someone is raising the button or CO with something like A high or 2 overs. You are shortstacked in the blinds and you know that a push will be(or mathematically should be) called by the raiser. You decide that you will push ANY flop regardless. If the flop comes 3 unders or missed your opponent he's not going to be getting a price to call a push if he missed the flopand is now like a 3-1 dog. Whereas he would have gotten a price with a push preflop.

    Here's a 2+2 with Raymer explaining the play
    http://archiveserver.twoplustwo.com/...mp;o=&vc=1
  4. Scott Farkus Scott Farkus is offline

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    Jan 11th, 2006 (1/11/2006 4:50pm) in reply to gidders

    Additional note on squeeze play: Works best if initial raiser is a loose aggressive type, and first caller is likely to be calling with less than optimal due to having been pushed out of many hands previously by the LAG raiser.
  5. Underdog Underdog is offline MVP of OT (self-proclaimed)

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    Jan 11th, 2006 (1/11/2006 6:09pm) in reply to Scott Farkus

    Yet another additional note (and this is from Harrington; I can't claim credit): you need to have enough info on the original raiser to know that he will be able to lay down his bet, and also you need to have earned a solid image.

    Underdog34
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