A difficult flop decision?

[all luck no skill]

hi,

First post. I have some free time at work so I thought I may start contributing to discussions here.

Upper mid stakes NL game (> 2/4 blinds)

You've recently sat down and don't know any of the other players. Presumably they don't know you.

The table is your typical mid-stakes NL game (or so you can see so far.)

You are dealt Qh Qd UTG and raise to 5x the BB. An opponent (assume no read) UTG+2 raises it to 15x BB total. Folded back around to you. You now have ~125x BB, and your nemesis has you covered. What's your move?

Assume you call. The flop comes 8h 9h Th.

You check, and your opponent bets 50x BB into a 33.5x BB pot.

What's your move now?

[t_petrosian]

Why did you check??

[all luck no skill]

You'll have to ask that player ;p It's not me.

[bingledork]

I play baby no-limit, so what do I know?
But here's what I think:
I think opponent has no hearts and an overpair. Say black Kings.

So I'd push. You've got 13 outs, so it's 50/50.

Then again, folding can't be that wrong either.

[all luck no skill]

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I play baby no-limit, so what do I know?


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I think you won't be playing baby no-limit for very much longer.

[Kirkrrr]

I play both fixed and NL games (both for smaller stakes), but when playing NL (which I seem to do better at than fixed, probably due to the practice I get in online tourneys), I try to follow a pretty strick raise-or-fold philosophy, and it's profitable far more often than not. Can you see yourself raising his 50BB bet? I wouldn't, so I'd fold. Pocket QQ's is one of those hands that's very easy to lose a pile of money on if you don't learn to lay it down (same for pocket KK's, as I found out to my great chagrin a week ago or so /images/graemlins/frown.gif).

I hope that helps at all. I'm just learning too.