now this is how you handle a bad beat

[rikz]

I min-reraised preflop so as not to scare villain away.

When he called preflop, and another Q fell on the turn, I micro-bet ($3) because I froze up a little. I was ready to move in if any other card besides A or Q had fallen on the turn. But when the Q fell, I figured that the Q would scare the daylights out of him unless he actually had the AQ. I didn't want to check, but I didn't want to bet the pot/push either. So, I bet $3 to see if he moved-in or called.

Villain was not tricky at all, so I figured that a call would be a pair of aces (AK), and a push would be an AQ. I didn't think a flush was likely give the action here.

So, when he called my $3 I was happy - and ready to value bet the river for $5 or so. But I just wasn't mentally prepared for that 3rd Queen to fall on the river. At that point, I knew I was beaten and I felt pretty stupid for being afraid of AQ on the previous street despite my reasoning, above (that I'd be happy to take critsism on, by the way).

I am not happy about how I played it. And I should have bet more on the reraise preflop, and then bet more on the flop than what I did - and been happy to have won if I scared him off either time.

This was obviously not my finest moment. More comments on my bad play are welcome.

Here's the hand.

It's scary that somebody here was at the table. Now you know who I am...

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $ Hero (10 handed) converter

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

<font color="#C00000">MP1 Villain ($28.6)</font>
MP2 ($21.94)
MP3 ($35.85)
CO ($22)
Button ($29.3)
SB ($43.7)
<font color="#C00000">Hero ($31.7)</font>
UTG ($24.05)
UTG+1 ($5.4)
UTG+2 ($22.1)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 3[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 3[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]. SB posts a blind of $0.1.
<font color="#CC3333">UTG raises to $0.5</font>, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">MP1 Villain raises to $1</font>, MP2 calls $1, MP3 calls $1, <font color="#666666">3 folds</font>, Hero calls $0.75, UTG calls $0.50.

Flop: ($5.10) 3[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(5 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets $2</font>, UTG folds, <font color="#CC3333">Villain raises to $4</font>, MP2 folds, MP3 folds, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to $8</font>, Villain calls $4.

Turn: ($21.10) Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets $3</font>, Villain calls $3.

River: ($27.10) Q[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Hero checks, Villain checks.

Final Pot: $27.10

Results in white below: <font color="#FFFFFF">
Hero has 3s 3c (full house, queens full of threes).
Villain has Ah Kh (full house, queens full of aces).
Outcome: Villain wins $27.10. </font>

[teamdonkey]

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It's scary that somebody here was at the table. Now you know who I am...

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that's just weird. so few people in my database are tight aggresive, i should start assuming they're all 2+2ers