I felt like I was playing these queens wrong.

[elonkra]

First game moving up into the $10's from the $5's and I felt like I was playing 'em too strong this early for some reason, although I probably wouldn't have thought twice about the way I played this at the $5 level, regardless of results. Any input?

Ultimate Bet No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t20 (10 handed) converter

saw flop|<font color="#C00000">saw showdown</font>

BB (t1460)
<font color="#C00000">Hero (t1500)</font>
UTG+1 (t1500)
UTG+2 (t1410)
MP1 (t1500)
<font color="#C00000">MP2 (t1420)</font>
MP3 (t1575)
CO (t1420)
Button (t1690)
SB (t1525)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with Q[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666"><font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t75</font>, 3 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">MP2 raises to t130</font>, <font color="#666666">5 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t575</font>, MP2 calls t445.

Flop: (t1180) 8[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 9[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets t925 (All-In)</font>, MP2 calls t845 (All-In).

Turn: (t2950) 6[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players, 2 all-in)</font>

River: (t2950) 3[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players, 2 all-in)</font>

Final Pot: t2950
<font color="#009B00">Main Pot: t2870 (t2870), between Hero and MP2.</font>

Results in white below:

<font color="white">HERO shows Qh Qd (pair of queens)
MP2 shows Kh Ah (ace high)</font>

[TStokes]

I like the play. I sometimes limp from early position but if I dont this is how I would play it.

[Phil Van Sexton]

At the 10s, I'd raise to 90 and then push when he re-raises.

When you raise to 400+, you are pretty much committed anyway.

All in all, not bad. You certainly didn't play them too strong IMO.

[liucipher]

Don't want to color my judgement so I haven't looked at your results.

I don't know how to play deep stacks on UB, but I push that flop heads up with such large preflop raising. If he has AA KK or AsKs, then so be it. But there is no way in heaven I let AT or TT see a card without paying dearly.

[elonkra]

[ QUOTE ]
Don't want to color my judgement so I haven't looked at your results.

I don't know how to play deep stacks on UB, but I push that flop heads up with such large preflop raising. If he has AA KK or AsKs, then so be it. But there is no way in heaven I let AT or TT see a card without paying dearly.

[/ QUOTE ]

Do you have a problem with the initial 3.5 BB raise, or just the nearly double pot-sized reraise as opposed to the push (I thought I was making him pay dearly -- don't I want A10/1010 calling huge bets here?)?

[TheNoodleMan]

I like your play. If the dreaded overcards show up on the flop, you've still got plenty of chips left when you have to bail.