Should I have played this differently?

[schnellvento]

This is a NL $10+1 SnG at Party. Four people left. Blinds are 50/100. UTG had been raising a lot with garbage and stealing blinds.

UTG (t3500)
Button (t900)
Hero (t1700)
BB (t1900)

Preflop: Hero is SB with Qs, Qd.
UTG raises to t500 , Button folds, Hero raises to t1700 (All-In), BB folds, UTG calls t1200.

Flop: (t2500) Ac, 10d, 9c (2 players, 1 all-in)

Turn: (t2500) Kh (2 players, 1 all-in)

River: (t2500) Ad (2 players, 1 all-in)

Final Pot: t2500
Main Pot: t2500 (t2500), between UTG and Hero. > Pot won by UTG (t2500).

Results in white below:
<font color="white">UTG shows As 9s (full house, aces full eights).
Hero shows Qs Qd (one pair, queens).
Outcome: UTG wins t2500.</font>

Should I have just smooth called the raise? Thinking now the hand would have been easier to get rid of with the flop that came. Should I just have reraised but not all in? Did I make the right play?

[edge]

I'd definitely do what you did, but I'm too aggressive on the bubble (and trying to fix that). Still, Queens are the third-best hand preflop, and with such big blinds, I'd certainly believe I'm ahead and push. I also find that a lot of $10+1 players do something stupid with Kings or Aces, by either minraising or limping when they had been coming in with a 3xBB raise with everything else.

It just sucks to go out in fourth (I threw away a big chip lead to finish in fourth three times in a row today).

[Hood]

You got all in with the best hand. With QQ, your about 70/30 to one over-card. You just got unlucky.

The only thing that may have got me to just call this is if there's a very small stack that's going to be going out this orbit. But in your situation, 900 stack has got ages to go yet. if you'd have won that, you would be in a good position for first.

[patrick dicaprio]

you amde the right play and your opponent called with a worse hand. what else do you want to happen? you cant win em all. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

Pat

[schnellvento]

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you amde the right play and your opponent called with a worse hand. what else do you want to happen? you cant win em all.

Pat

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Yeah, I seem to get my money in with the best of it 99/100 times. However, I seem to get out drawn 99/100 times. I guess that's poker [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]