QQ OOP vs loose-ish table (attn: -Skeme-)

[Rode_Dog]

This is a tough hand. Normally, I would raise about 6XBB with QQ, but you had a raise and a re-raise in front of you. IMO, this changes everything. The button's raise tells me he is representing AA-KK or AK. He is more than twice as likely to have AK. There is an off chance that he has jacks or queens, but I doubt it.

I would have called the pre-flop bet, but not raised. If he has any of those hands, I'm not pushing him off. Catching your set on the flop would normally be good, but with AK being the statistical favorite hand for the button, I would be worried. You have TT-AA beat, but you are either drawing dead or facing no less than 8 outs against your set.

I don't know If I could have done it, but I think the correct play is to check/fold here. I probably would have pushed with a $60 bet at the flop and folded to a re-raise, losing $60 I didn't have to.