(55) QQ line

[Pokerscott]

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One line of play to consider is to minraise pre flop. The theory is that AA and KK will never fail to re-reraise pre flop.

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I'm surprised there has been no comments on this. I really don't like this line. Sure, you can really define your hand the times that someone is holding AA/KK behind you, but does that make up for the much more likely case where you end up playing QQ in a family pot and lose to a very large range of hands?

I personally never use the min-raise unless I'm heads-up (maybe three-handed) and my opponents have shown that they'll fold to it most times. I just don't like giving the BB odds to call with any two, which makes the post-flop play much more difficult.

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Just to be clear, the min raise I was talking about was a min RE raise. The betting would go:

Hero raises 90
villain raises 240
Hero min RE raises 390

I mentioned the 390 in the post but didn't spell it out this clearly. Anyway, no way does this sequence end up with a family pot.

You get to have the hand defined and it costs a relatively cheap 150.

I agree btw almost never right with AK to be first in with a min raise with 8 to act.

Pokerscott