Super Thursday QQ Hand, On The Bubble

Lloyd · #1 12-30-2005, 03:09 PM

1/3 times an overcard will hit the flop. How will you play the hand? If the answer is fold, you should definitely raise pre-flop.

bambam16 · #2 12-30-2005, 04:17 PM

Yeah, I'm more with Lloyd on this...I usually do reraise this preflop, which is why I was upset with the way the hand played out. I had a brain fart on this hand, mostly because of my most recent MTT finishes where the villian had the one hand that could beat me.

The result was the villian had AJ, and caught an A on the river for his two pair. Not complaining so much as I knew I could have pushed him off the hand if I played the QQ properly by reraising preflop or c/r'ing all in. But I ended up in 138 so I at least got my buy in back plus $19 [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] Big pay day. That pot would've put me in the top two or three in chips and with almost a 4x average stack. Those are the breaks though. Thanks for the analysis.

#3 12-30-2005, 04:54 PM

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Not complaining so much as I knew I could have pushed him off the hand if I played the QQ properly by reraising preflop or c/r'ing all in.

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Your objective is not to push Villain off of AJ. Not pre-flop, and not on a J high flop. As you said, doubling through here puts you in an awesome spot to go deep. The risk of bubbling out, and certainly the risk of finishing in shallow money, is well worth it.