I feel lost...

[MarkD]

... whenever I play no limit. Here is a recent example.

I do not have a read on villian because:
- I had only been playing this table for about 5-10 hands.
- I do not have any software on my laptop.

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $ Hero (6 max, 10 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx

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

Button ($92.38)
SB ($363.15)
Hero ($185)
UTG ($171.65)
UTG+1 ($31.35)
UTG+2 ($180)
MP1 ($208.60)
MP2 ($198)
MP3 ($132.29)
CO ($256.90)

Preflop: Hero is BB with Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]. SB posts a blind of $1.
<font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, UTG+2 calls $2, MP1 calls $2, <font color="#666666">4 folds</font>, SB (poster) completes, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to $13</font>, UTG+2 calls $13, MP1 calls $13, SB folds.

Flop: ($47) K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 4[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets $20</font>, UTG+2 calls $20, MP1 folds.

Turn: ($87) 5[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Hero checks, <font color="#CC3333">UTG+2 bets $40</font>, Hero folds.

Final Pot: $127

I raised big pre-flop because I wanted to severely limit the field a lot... My position really sucks so I was unsure about potentially building a big pot and although my raise was large I thought this would discourage action. Besides my hand is really good.

I didn't know how to play the hand post-flop at all. $20 seemed like a very reasonable bet on the flop though to find out where I am at... I am really unsure about this though.