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 Small Blind vs Open Cut-Offs
Squeezing from the Small Blind vs Open Cut-Offs Squeezing from the small blind versus an open cut-off is very similar to squeezing from the big blind. The only major difference is that against some better big blind players, you are more susceptible to a 4-bet re-steal. You won't have to worry about this at micro stakes and most small stakes games.
You want to walk yourself through
You want to walk yourself through the exact same poker though algorithms (pgs. 62–64) and add one more question: 1. How often is our opponent opening from the cut-off? 2. How aggressive is our opponent? 3. What are the stack sizes? 4. Is our hand more for drawing or flopping top pair? 5. How tricky is our opponent in the big blind? If they are capable of 4-bet bluffing, you'll want to cut off some of your polarized 3-bet bluffing range so you won't be squeezing quite as often with weak hands and forced to fold. In this same vein, if they are capable of 4-bet bluffing, then they'll surely be capable of 3-bet squeezing an open cut-off and two callers with a fairly wide range. Occasionally flat with QQ+, AK, looking to trap your tricky opponent in the big blind.