Part: Part Five - Betting Before the Flop
A light squeeze
Pre-flop
A loose cutoff opens, the button flat-calls, the small blind folds, and you're in the big blind with 8♠7♠.
Raiser-plus-caller, and you hold 8♠7♠ in the BB. Best?
WhySqueeze as a bluff. The flat-caller is capped (he'd have re-raised a big hand) and the opener is loose, so a large three-bet makes both fold a high percentage of the time. 8-7 suited is an ideal bluffing hand - it has playability and equity the times you do get called.
What happensYou squeeze to 2,600 (13 BB); both fold. You take it pre-flop.
You don't need a premium to squeeze - a raiser-plus-caller is a setup where a big three-bet, even with a suited connector, prints because the caller is capped and the opener is weak.
Squeeze light against a raiser and a flat-caller - both are usually too weak to continue, so fold equity, not card strength, drives the play.