NL Squid · Strategy course

In NL Squid, folding costs you. Standard poker quietly bleeds.

Squid punishes folding, so the game that wins everywhere else loses here by default. Learn the exact preflop, postflop, and exploit adjustments, and turn the table's dead money into your win rate.

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NL Hold'em Squid strategy course

Play it like normal hold'em, and you're the fish.

Squid punishes folding. That one rule changes the math of every decision, and your normal winning strategy starts leaking from the first hand.

−26 bb/100 Default bleed

What standard NLH loses in Squid before you make a single mistake.

−32.5 bb Fold penalty

The worst it can cost you to fold a single hand.

+13 bb/100 Goes to them

The dead money the format creates. It goes to whoever adjusted first.

You need a real edge from the adjustments just to break even. Ignore them and the table keeps eating.

What you'll be able to do.

01

Stop the −26 bb/100 leak

See exactly why your default game loses in Squid, and how the EV math flips once folding has a price.

02

Rebuild your preflop

The VPIP expansion and the math behind it, so you can rebuild ranges from principle instead of memorizing charts.

03

A postflop game for shallow trees

The small-bet system for Squid's multiway, small-pot spots: push your equity cheaply and burn theirs.

04

Collect the dead money

The setup vs punish framework to dismantle the rare adjusted reg, and feast on everyone still on autopilot.

You shouldn't have to figure this out at the table.

If your solid NLH game suddenly bleeds in Squid, that's not you running bad. The format is built to punish your old reflexes.

We sat in those pools, watched a winning strategy leak, then rebuilt it from the format's actual math instead of guessing.

Built the JPS way.

Same first-principles method as JPS Cash: understand why the format works the way it does, so you can solve any spot instead of memorizing a chart and hoping.

Every adjustment comes from solver work, logic and the format's EV math.

2 hrsCore video, annotated
42 pagesPreflop math doc
Visualsummary of the core ideas

Three moves to flip the format.

  1. 1

    Recalibrate preflop

    Widen your VPIP and stop folding indifferent hands. The format breaks every EV tie toward action.

  2. 2

    Rebuild postflop

    Run the small-bet game built for shallow, multiway Squid pots: cheap pressure that denies their equity.

  3. 3

    Exploit the unadjusted

    Use setup vs punish to beat the rare adjusted reg and collect from everyone still on autopilot.

The actual depth, not motivation slides.

A look at the system you'll learn: the format math, the preflop expansion, the small-bet postflop game, and the exploit map.

Standard NLH win rate vs adapted Squid win rate
Standard NLH vs Squid dynamics
Preflop framework: the VPIP expansion
Postflop small-bet strategy
The exploit framework: setup vs punish
The S-f aggression heatmap

Course materials

Video

2-hour core video

Essential Squid-format concepts walked through from preflop to river. Annotated examples, not slide-reading.

Document

42-page preflop document

Preflop calculations and range-building explained. The math behind every chart so you can rebuild ranges in any spot variant.

Visual Summary

Visual Summary

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NL Squid · Strategy course

NL Hold'em Squid

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Be the player the table pays.

You stop paying the fold penalty and start collecting it. You become the aware player with a clear, math-backed edge, in a pool where most people are quietly losing.

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Built for regulars in Squid pools.

  • You already see the Squid format in your regular pools and want a structured strategy for it.
  • You have solid 6-max fundamentals and need format-specific adjustments rather than starting from scratch.
  • You want a self-contained reference you can revisit, not a long course.