Squeezing in uNL?

This is a play I basically don't employ at all. I'm honestly not sure if I've ever squeezed as a play. I really only do it as a value raise after someone happened to get in the middle. I'm playing 25nl right now, and while sweating this guy, I'm seeing him squeeze left and right, as well as 3betting super light for various reasons, very very often. He'd open fold A9s in the hijack, but didn't mind 3betting it there, stuff like that. (He's not a 25nl player, higher stakes)

Do you think these ideas are something worth pursuing at unl or are they fps there?

I'm going to give it a go and see what happens, but I really feel like it's not going to work out. At 100nl 3bets got lots of respect so I naturally started 3betting wider, but I feel like I'm just going to end up playing big pots with marginal hands. I dunno, maybe it'll work, maybe it won't, but I have a bad feeling about this experiment.

Squeezing isn't something I'd consciously try to do a lot at less than 50nl.

On the other hand, if you find good situations for it (opener is a passive nit, callers are straightforward players for example), I think it could be profitable.

Try it. My guess is that at 25nl it should work fine. If you do get called a lot, than it's super profitable to open up your value 3betting range significantly.

I agree with Belgo. So many people at 25nl have almost no experience with 3bets in general because a lot of 25nl players only 3bet KK+. My guess is that you'll get tons of respect and those times you do get calls people will be doing stupid things like playing fit or fold against you. Should be very profitable.

I haven't tried it a lot either, but I suspect it'll get called more often than at higher levels, but will also get 4 bet light less than at higher levels too.

Squeezing is viable. The opportunities to do so are much more rare at unl because people who fit squeezing criteria are much rarer but it doesn't hurt to be on the lookout for them.

We need 2+ loose players but will fold to a 3bet. The problem with people at unl is that people are either too loose, too aggressive, or too tight. Thus, when we get 2+ loose people to potentially squeeze, we need to make sure they aren't TOO loose because that foils our plans.

Key stats I look at for squeezing are: VPIP/PFR and fold to 3bet. Another problem here is that 3bets are rare at unl meaning fold to 3bet is a stat that will take a large hand sample to be remotely meaningful. Thus, we can "test" people by 3betting them light in position to get some meaningful information. As a final note, when we are looking at loose callers, we want people more in the 30/15 loose category than the 70/5 loose category as the latter is more likely to call the reraise.