[elindauer]

Oh man, are you ever spewing chips...

First of all, your flop 3-bet makes no sense. If the BB has hit the board, you are way behind with no hope of making him fold. If not, then he's way behind drawing to 2 outs and you shouldn't mind him coming along for the ride.

Now, it's true that he might be correct to call with QQ for 1 SB. However, he does not gain much by calling. On the other hand, if you reraise and are wrong, you're going to lose a big percentage of your bet every time. That's assuming you're not already losing to UTG, of course.

So, you have to be ahead most of the time to justify giving all this excess action to the BB.

Then, when he caps the flop anyways, you lead into him again? Huh?! Are you trying to lose the max? I don't get it. Do you really think he's going to fold? And what are you reading UTG for? Did you notice that spades just got there?

Now, you get to the river. You finally come to your senses and check, recognizing that you have little hope of beating the BB at this point. When UTG bets, you have perhaps put yourself in a position to capitalize on all the excess action you've given. Maybe UTG has AQ, and maybe the BB can be made to fold AK for 2 cold. Maybe.

If you're going to call anyways, it's certainly worth the extra 1 BB investment to find out. You've represented a bigger hand than you have, so go ahead and go all out trying to win this monster.

Next time, ease off the gas.

good luck.
eric