please critique this hand. Playing too scared?

[Binbs]

Please critique this hand.

Would like some more opinions.


** Game ID 502124601 starting - 2005-09-17 16:27:01
** Rainham [Hold 'em] (0.10|0.20 No Limit - Cash Game) Real Money

- purecard1 sitting in seat 1 with $21.20 [Dealer]
- SteadyGo sitting in seat 2 with $32.76
- reddepetter sitting in seat 3 with $6.86
- erke74 sitting in seat 4 with $4.25
- remostar sitting in seat 5 with $20.30
- Binbs sitting in seat 6 with $19.80

SteadyGo posted the small blind - $0.10
reddepetter posted the big blind - $0.20
** Dealing card to Binbs: King of Diamonds, Queen of Clubs
erke74 called - $0.20
remostar folded
Binbs called - $0.20
purecard1 raised - $1.00
SteadyGo folded
reddepetter folded
erke74 called - $1.00
Binbs called - $1.00

** Dealing the flop: Queen of Hearts, 10 of Hearts, 6 of Spades
erke74 bet - $1.00
Binbs called - $1.00
purecard1 raised - $4.00
erke74 went all-in - $2.25
Binbs folded
purecard1 shows: Queen of Diamonds, King of Spades
erke74 shows: 10 of Clubs, Jack of Diamonds

** Dealing the turn: Jack of Clubs

** Dealing the river: King of Hearts
purecard1 wins $10.50 from the main pot

End of game 502124601

Fold preflop. Without an incredible read, you can never call a real raise with K-Q. You're dominated too many times, and even if you hit your hand, you don't know if it's good. For example, in this hand, you clearly felt awkward and uncomfortable. You hit your top pair, but only called a bet and then folded to a raise. It's trouble. Stay away.

But since you did call preflop, I would have played it the same after the flop. I don't want to put a whole lot of money into this hand since I don't have any idea if it's good or not, so I just call the flop bet. But once someone raises and there are two other players in the pot, I'm out. No reason to go crazy with a vulnerable hand in a multiway pot with a draw heavy board.

Six players, KQ is a pretty decent hand, but why are you limping, you need to raise pre-flop, then, when you hit top pair, you have to bet it. If you play hands like that shorthanded, you're gonna blind yourself out. I'll tell you why purecard raised pre-flop, because everyone limped. Nobody showed him any strength. The man had the same hand as you!!!Next time you have KQ in the CO in a shorthanded game, and nobody's raised, raise..raise...raise.

[stu-unger]

fold or raise PF, lead at flop, make decisions when they're easy to make.