Easy Squeezy

A well-timed squeeze play is a great way to pick up chips in a tournament setting, and we have seen several players utilize this move with success so far today to pad out their stack without a showdown.

In the first we caught Oriental Poker Championship final tablist Chuanshu Chen opening the action with an early position raise to 500, picking up two callers before big blind Xie Feng squeezed to 2,500. With the action back on Chen, he took an age to make a decision but eventually decided to give it up with the rest of the table following suit quickly afterward, leaving Feng to scoop in the pot unopposed.

The next sizable pot that we witnessed play out also followed this trend. We picked up the action pre-flop after some heavy betting, with 1,000 in blinds and antes already pulled into the pot. A player in the cutoff had re-raised to 1,200 with Dai Li making the call on the button and the action was on big blind Jiajing Hu.

Hu reached for chips, but not for calling with, and squeezed to 4,200 in total. Only Li made the call, taking the action heads-up to a flop of .

This saw Hu flick a 6,000 continuation bet off the top of his stack, which was enough to take down the pot when Li made the fold. Li dropped to 20,000 after the hand, while Hu climbed to 40,000.