battle of the blinds hand
 

How do most people play this hand. QQ is a good enough hand to want to see the flop perhaps? Do most people check here, bet less, or go all in as I did? opponent was loose passive and kept limping in for some reason.

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t100 (5 handed) converter

SB (t2295)
Hero (t620)
UTG (t550)
MP (t1155)
Button (t3380)

Preflop: Hero is BB with Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">3 folds</font>, SB completes, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>.

Final Pot: t200

Re: battle of the blinds hand
 

Push. Checking is absurd, and any raise commits you to the pot anyways. QQ is a monster and BB's calling range is pretty wide.

Re: battle of the blinds hand
 

you did the right move, this is an easy push

lol, the hand converter says that you folded pf

Re: battle of the blinds hand
 

I know qq is a monster. Thats my point. My question is ICM wise how big of a monster is it and can we get villan to call. i.e. how much of an advantage is it for him to call. what about AA still easy push?

Re: battle of the blinds hand
 

If you raise to say 300T, I think he's calling with pretty much the same hands as if you push.

Re: battle of the blinds hand
 

whether I would check AA depends on the player, but often I would check since the SB is probably going to fold to your push. Checking QQ and giving 3 free cards is absurd though.

Re: battle of the blinds hand
 

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If you raise to say 300T, I think he's calling with pretty much the same hands as if you push.

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this is another good option. A good player is likely to read it as a value raise, but if this guy was a good player he would have either pushed or folded pf.