QQ leads to odd waters

AlphaMeridian · #1 05-25-2005, 04:14 AM

A friend of mine told me to post this hand. This was at the end of a session, as I was getting hungry. To be completely honest, at the time, it pretty much sent me into tiltmode, so I was glad it was at the END of a session. After cooling off and looking at the hand a bit, I have a turn question...

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Preflop: Hero is UTG+1 with Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
UTG calls, Hero raises, 1 fold, MP1 3-bets, MP2 calls, 5 folds, UTG folds, Hero caps, MP1 calls, MP2 calls.

Standard.

Flop: (14.50 SB) 5[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 3[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] (3 players)
Hero bets, MP1 calls, MP2 raises, Hero 3-bets, MP1 calls, MP2 caps, Hero calls, MP1 calls.

Here, I'm pretty much surprised, but I'm beating a lot of hands with a ten in them (maybe something like AT calls a raise preflop and likes the flop as he has top pair) I hope the 3 bet is standard as well.

Turn: (13.25 BB) T[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (3 players)
Hero checks, MP1 checks, MP2 bets, Hero calls, MP1 folds.

Here, I check as the only rational hand I can figure someone playing this way is a hand with a ten, BUT, I could be wrong...

River: (15.25 BB) K[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (2 players)
Hero bets, MP2 calls.

So I bet into his trip tens and he calls down.

Final Pot: 17.25 BB

Again, looking at this some time after I played it leads me to want to bet into him on the turn, not the river. If he has the ten, he would gleefully raise it, no? (so, my line is to fold to a turn raise here) If he doesn't have the ten, then perhaps he folds. Any thoughts on this? Any other lines I haven't considered?

-Alpha