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Old 11-22-2005, 06:05 AM
soah soah is offline
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Default Re: Hello NL, my name is fishypie

Preflop you can do anything with this hand depending upon how the game has been flowing.

On the flop I almost always bet and then shut down when called. Most of the time button won't have a queen, and the blinds will usually lead out if they have a decent hand. So it's a combination of protecting my hand, bluffing the blinds off of weak queens, and avoiding sticky situations later due to lack of information (like if you check and the button bets, what does he have? He doesn't need a queen to bet there, but he often will have it.)

Normally I'd raise the turn, but just calling has its place as well. You haven't given us enough information to figure out which is better.

The river bet is unpleasant. He got called in two spots on a fairly drawless turn and still wants a lot of money to go in on the river. People that bet the full size of the pot on the river at NL400 on Party have big hands. Your hand is too strong to fold, but raising here would be very dangerous. Even if your hand is good, he may not call a big raise. And I'd expect him to hold a boat quite a fair percentage of the time here.
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