After earning 00 status and a licence to kill, Secret Agent James Bond sets out on his first mission as 007. Bond must defeat a private banker funding terrorists in a high-stakes game of poker at Casino Royale, Montenegro. When done right, these movies do a lot more than just showcase the game accurately. A great poker movie gives viewers a sense of poker subculture, and how it affects those who play it. Loosely defined, there are probably hundreds of ‘poker movies’. Poker is, after all, now a global phenomenon. The following are some of our most favorite poker movies of all time. California Split. One of Robert Altman’s most underrated gems, this film from 1974 featuring the one and only Elliot Gould. He now moves all-in on the river – you call and he was bluffing throughout with zero equity. How it works Once you have a read on an opponent that they like to bluff – either because they are a good, aggressive player or a massive fish that loves to unload the clip – then whatever you do, let them bluff. A list of movies related to Gambling and/or poker. This list is made for the users of the Gaming community www.GamingHill.com where you can find a lot of more Gambling related stuff (tools, reviews, entertainment, games, forums etc).

Winning at poker isn’t all about the fundamentals.

There are a handful of special power moves that, when mastered, can make the difference between winning a little and winning a lot.

In this 10-part beginner poker strategy series we show you exactly how to use these powerful poker moves to make more money.

Today we look at the squeeze play, a move that can increase your win rate regardless of what cards you’re holding.

By leveraging a few key concepts and using your understanding of your opponents’ playing tendencies, we’ll show you how to squeeze every cent of out of your poker sessions.

How to Make a Poker Squeeze Play

The What: The squeeze play is a bluffing opportunity arising when a loose player raises before the flop and another loose player calls behind him.The “Squeeze” comes in when you put in a big three-bet and blast both of them off the pot.

The Why: Because a loose/aggressive player will often be opening with a wide range of hands, and the second player will be calling with a very wide range to see a cheap flop, neither one has a hand that can stand up to a big three-bet.

The Who: Look for loose/aggressive opening raisers who are opening too often, and weaker, passive players who are calling to see cheap flops.

The Where: Squeeze plays can be used in tournaments and cash games but they’re only effective in big-bet games like No-Limit Hold’em and Pot-Limit Omaha. In Limit games you can’t raise enough to force your opponents to fold.

Squeeze Plays Done Right

At its core the squeeze play relies on:

the opening raiser’s loose table image and
the calling player’s awareness of that image

Just picture it like this:

Player A (Raiser): Has a loose table image and a wide open-raising range.

Player B (Caller): Is aware of Player A’s loose image and has a wide calling range because of it.

You have to identify the right combination of loose open-raising and loose flat-calling to get a high percentage of folds.

But that’s not all that goes into a successful squeeze play:

Raise Big – Your squeeze play has to be big enough to force your opponents to fold mediocre hands. Your squeeze raise should be at least five times the initial raise.

Less Players Behind You is Better – Ideally you want to squeeze when you have as few as possible players still to act behind you. The more players to act, the more likely someone’s going to wake up with a hand. It’s also helpful if the players still to act are tight and not likely to call light.

Your Credibility and Table Image – How you’ve been playing and what your opponents know about you will affect how light they’re willing to call off. The tighter you’ve been playing the better.

Related Reading:

All-In Squeeze Plays in Tournaments

One of the places you’ll see this move most often is when people squeeze all-in during a tournament. There are two big reasons this is the easiest and most effective place to squeeze.

No Post-Flop Play – Since you either get called or you don’t, it takes the guesswork out of playing three-bet pots after the flop.
Added Strength – If your opponents are calling for their tournament lives they will fold a wider range of hands.

All-in tournament squeezes still rely on a loose raiser and a loose caller, but there’s another set of variables you have to consider.

The size of your chip stack, your opponents’ stacks and the blinds all have to align to make this kind of squeeze play truly effective.

Just like all squeeze plays you need to have enough chips to force your opponents to fold but in tournaments your all-in has to make sense in relation to the blinds as well.

Look for spots where you have roughly 15 big blinds. In most situations any less than that and you’ll be giving your opponents too good a price on a call.

Related Reading:

The Power of the Squeeze Play Comes from 3 Factors:

Lots of aggressive players open-raise with weak hands that can't stand up to a big three-bet.
The players who are just calling are most likely holding marginal hands too since they opted not to raise.
When you re-raise, you put the original raiser in a tough spot, out of position with players still to act behind him.

All of this adds up to folds from your opponents and more chips in your stack. Watch the video below and learn to use the squeeze play in just two and a half minutes.

More Essential Texas Hold'em Moves:

In Unit 3 we looked at the types of bets that you should have in your arsenal of weapons to use against your opponents. In this lesson we are going to add three more advanced betting strategies to make your strategy even stronger.

Blind Stealing

Blind stealing is a strategy used by a player in late position to steal the chips in the blinds. This is done by making a raise to put pressure on the blinds to fold. To use this strategy everyone else must have folded their hands before you.

The theory behind this move is that as the blinds are forced to put chips into the pot via the big and small blind, the likelihood is that they are holding weak cards that they don’t really want to play, and hence they would not be prepared to commit any more chips to the pot.

The strength of your hand doesn’t matter too much, but a half decent hand is a benefit for this move, just in case you get called.

Blind stealing can be risky, but is important when you start to play on the higher stakes tables, and in tournament play. It works best against Tight players who are more likely to fold against your bet. Against a loose player you should limit the use of this strategy to when you have a strong hand.

Every time the dealer button passes around the table and we don’t win a pot it costs us a minimum of 1x big blind and 1x small blind. If we steal the blinds once per round then that covers that cost and allows us to wait for better hands to play the more significant pots. I’m not saying that you should steal the blind every round, as that would become obvious very quickly, but just using it as an illustration.

Isolation Raise

This is a good tactic to use in the situation where a short stack has gone all in and you are considering playing, but there are still other players involved in the pot who could also call.

An Isolation Raise is made to encourage opponents to fold and leave us playing versus just one opponent, usually a short stack who is all in.

Now when we play a big pot / big hand we always want to limit the field to protect our hand, so we want the other players to fold and only play against the short stack. By playing against less opponents, the odds of us winning the hand increases significantly.

So the option we have here is to Re-raise to put pressure on the other players not to play and hence isolate the short stack. Remember if no one else calls your raise, then you have only committed the original short stacks raise into the pot.

Example

Everyone folds round to you in the d

All Poker Moves