Isolate

Raising over one or more limpers to play against them alone. The raise is bigger than a normal open, because the limpers already put money in.

Example

Two friends limp. You raise to 5 big blinds from the cutoff to isolate them, and everyone behind folds.

Also written: isolation raise, iso-raise, iso raise, iso-raises, isolating, isolates, iso.

Related

• limp Just calling the big blind preflop instead of raising.
• open-raise Being the first player to raise preflop, after everyone before you has folded.
• squeeze A 3-bet after one player has raised and at least one other has called.

Practise it in 5 minutes Isolating a limper, a short free lesson.

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