QQ how to play

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QQ how to play

i had 1500 chips my 4th hand i get QQ. Blinds are 30/60

I raise to 120 from under the gun. 4 people fold the BB calls.

flop is something like 42T

I check, So does opponent.

turn is a 7. I bet halfpot (120) just hoping he has something.

he calls and river is a king. the pot is 540 and i bet 320. he raised all in and I called. He had two pair with k10

I guess I should've bet folded on the river or check called. Other than that are there any other things I could've done? Maybe bet on the flop and increased bet size preflop and on the turn?


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Rapha Nogueira 10 years, 9 months ago

To balance my semi-bluffs (I'm not going air bluffing on this stage of the tournament), I prefer to bet QQ for protection OTF, considering that I'm going to get at least one street from 99-55 and make a small bet OTT to make some weak pairs continue (99-88) and to protect my equity. OTR your hand plays better as a x/c than a bet/c since he has very, very few bluffs on his range and he probably won't go nuts on this stage of the tournament. 

steamer 10 years, 9 months ago

Bet the flop. Low stakes players will call CB with tons on the flop plus he has a some tens there. Bet the turn. Bet/fold river. (You can't x/c in position.) Or if you've bet the other streets possibly check behind, you can't afford to bet/fold the pot's too big.


mrpompos 10 years, 9 months ago

thanks I like that advice, I would prefer bet/fold than check behind just cause its a low stakes tournament, want to take risk. oh yeah I can't x/c in position that's how bad I am at poker I don't think of obvious things like that lol when I look back logically it makes sense to bet and then slow down on the river but I tried to slow play instead of being aggressive and making better decisions. big pairs often win small pots and lose big ones so I've heard.


spiderhami 10 years, 9 months ago

theres no way on river to call his raise, what can you beat?

flop and turn good to bet, but river? i would check with position, or like you bet&fold.

thecheshire 10 years, 9 months ago

Looks like you should be IP here as UTG opener and bb caller, no?

250 in the pot and ~1350 behind on dry board vs fish, when checked to on flop there should be a bet as he's calling you w/ any piece on that board, so extract value, I think a lot of his range will call 80-95 into 250 to make a 410 pot on turn that you  can get over half pot that he may call with a vast majority of his flop calling range that you beat.

Then either thin river value or check behind.  That said, as played he is never raising river as a bluff there w/o  a lot of history imo....and if he is kudos to him, he's a sicko.

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