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
Some players never squeeze with weak hands.
Some players never squeeze with weak hands. In general, older players don’t squeeze. I watched a 21-year-old online player in a $5,000 WSOP event raise with 9-9 from middle position, get called, and then get squeezed by a 60-year-old man. The young player instantly went all in with 9-9. The older player thought for around 3 minutes, said, “Well, I guess I’m behind. Maybe it’s a coin flip,†and called with Q-Q, knocking out the young player. While 9-9 is way ahead of a standard online player’s squeezing range, it is crushed by the older player’s range. Because of this, the young player should have folded 9-9 before the flop.
To sum up, look for spots where the raiser
To sum up, look for spots where the raiser is probably loose and attack him relentlessly. Don’t be scared to squeeze, especially if you haven’t done it in a while. If you’re re-raised, keep your cool, figure out everyone’s range and make the most profitable decision.