QQ Overpair

[DavidC]

Is there any way to prevent myself from losing my stack here? Just curious. This isn't a bad beat post; it's an area i need to work on.

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<font color="#C00000">BB ($41)</font>
UTG ($27.4)
UTG+1 ($24.1)
UTG+2 ($20.4)
MP1 ($24.53)
<font color="#C00000">MP2 ($0)</font>
MP3 ($24.75)
CO ($46.82)
Button ($7.41)
<font color="#C00000">Hero ($23.25)</font>

Preflop: Hero is SB with Q/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, Q/images/graemlins/club.gif. Hero posts a blind of $0.1.
<font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, UTG+2 calls $0.25, MP1 calls $0.25, <font color="#666666">3 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero (poster) raises to $0.9</font>, BB calls $0.75, UTG+2 calls $0.75, MP1 calls $0.75.

Flop: ($4) 3/images/graemlins/heart.gif, 7/images/graemlins/spade.gif, 2/images/graemlins/club.gif <font color="#0000FF">(5 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets $3</font>, BB calls $3, UTG+2 folds, MP1 folds.

Turn: ($10) 2/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets $6</font>, BB calls $6.

River: ($22) A/images/graemlins/club.gif <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
Hero checks, <font color="#CC3333">BB bets $13.25</font>, Hero calls $13.25 (All-In).

Final Pot: $48.50

[DavidC]

Check through the turn?

[DavidC]

I think the only hands that I had beat here were JJ and AK.

[salloch]

I would bet more pre-flop and on every street up to the river. On the flop, it's likely you have teh best hand, since you didn't get re-popped by BB or UTG+2. And I would tend to at least bet the pot or overbet a little.

But I think that ace on the river and the AI is your ticket to a fold. His calling has me thinking he either had a set or AK. If you can't help but call and AI on this river, you should push.

[crazygoose]

Raise more preflop so you don't get so many caller. With PP don't worry about getting callers at 8x the BB if they already made an initial call. Your flop bet is pretty good, but you need to bet a bit more on the turn to better define your hand. Don't check that turn. There's not much you can do about the A. The pot is too big to throw out a blocking bet. You really should lay that down though...that's a pretty bad call. What are the chances of him bluffing given the strength you've showed through the hand? I think he has you beat more than 1 in 3 times on that river.

[DavidC]

You guys are right about raising more PF, definitely!

[TheWorstPlayer]

Your problem in this hand is stack sizes. You're in the SB facing two limpers and the BB. You are likely to get one or two callers preflop and one on the flop. You then want to be able to push the turn. $1.50 preflop, bet the full pot, or perhaps slightly more, on the flop, push the turn should do it. You definitely don't want to be stuck with less than a pot-sized bet on the river. That is just poor betting. If he is drawing, you want him to put his whole stack in BEFORE he misses on the river. Even with your preflop raise size (which I think is too small, but whatever) you can bet $5 on the flop (remember with your bet size, once the first person calls, the second caller is getting better than 3:1 on his call and the last caller better than 4:1). Then you can push your remaining $17 into the $14 pot on the turn. Much better than your route.