Tournament Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
Squeezing from the Big Blind vs Open Buttons
Squeezing from the Big Blind vs Open Buttons When the small blind decides to come along and flat call your opponent’s open buttons raises, it should really widen your 3-bet range as a squeeze, unless your opponent on the button is extremely stubborn, or decently tricky post flop. It's best to use caution against these kinds of opponents. In general, most of your opponents are going to know that you'll be squeezing a bit wider, but that shouldn't prevent you from doing so if you 3-bet a smart range of hands, and keep your 3-bet sizing good.
In general anywhere from a pot-sized raise
In general anywhere from a pot-sized raise to about 4.5x your opponent’s opening raise is a good size to enable a high percent of fold equity. You want a high percentage of fold equity to make up for times when your opponents really have a hand, or you get called and have to shut down because of a poor flop texture.