A good squeeze bluff blocks your opponents' big hands and plays badly as a three-way call. Hands that play well multiway would rather call.
In order, the hands we squeeze as bluffs:
Suited connectors (76s, 65s) and small pairs are not bluffs. They realise their equity well multiway, above all in the BB, where you close the action at a good price.
Example. The HJ opens, the CO calls, you are in the SB. A4s squeezes as a bluff. 76s folds: from the SB, with the BB still to act, we almost never call.
Strategy tip
A squeeze bluff is a hand that blocks, not a hand that plays well.
A5s blocks AA and AK, the hands that 4-bet you, and keeps equity when called. 76s blocks nothing and realises its equity better by calling three-way.
Only from the blinds and at a low frequency: A5o, A4o, KJo, QJo. In position we do not bluff-squeeze offsuit hands.
From 50bb up, call them in position or in the BB: they win big when they make a set three-way. At 25bb and below they no longer call: the stack is too short to set-mine. From the SB they usually fold.
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