A Hand from last nights Stars $215

[Jonathan]

Slow play a set of queens or raise flop in this situation?

Thanks for the comments,
Jonathan

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t50 (9 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx

UTG+1 (t3040)
MP1 (t3005)
MP2 (t2620)
Hero (t2310)
CO (t3940)
Button (t3145)
SB (t2280)
BB (t1305)
UTG (t855)

Preflop: Hero is MP3 with A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, UTG+1 calls t50, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t150</font>, <font color="#666666">4 folds</font>, UTG+1 calls t100.

Flop: (t375) Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">UTG+1 bets t200</font>, Hero calls t200.

Turn: (t775) J[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">UTG+1 bets t300</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t900</font>, UTG+1 calls t600.

River: (t2575) T[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">UTG+1 bets t500</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t1060</font>, UTG+1 calls t560.

Final Pot: t4695

being a nit right now, but a set is when you have 2 in your hand, one on the board.
other than that i can't help much.

To me a bet of half your stack on the turn isn't all that strong of a reraise and if I'm villain and holding anything that matches the board I might look you up here with a call thinking just that. I would push the turn thinking that I'm most likely ahead and if villain has Q8 or QJ I'm going broke. Regardless, if he wants to see a river card with the possible draws on board he has to pay dearly.

a set is 3 of a kind, trips. he has a set.

Most would call it trips, and refer to a set if he held QQ and the flop came QTT.

[yvesaint]

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a set is 3 of a kind, trips. he has a set.

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a set is when you hold a pocket pair and the 3rd card comes up on the board

trips is when theres two of the cards on the board and you hold a 3rd in your hand.

very different

he had J9s didnt he? that's why your posting. or maybe he had QJ. All in all, I probably play this similar and go broke also.

http://www.pokertips.org (go to poker glossary and you will find this definition)

Set
Also known as: Trips, Thee of a Kind.

A set means a three of a kind. Generally, people refer to a set when someone has a three of a kind because they have a pocket pair, with a board matching that rank of the pocket pair in hold'em. For example, if I hold 77 and the flop comes J76, I flopped a set of sevens.

noticed he says "generally" people refer to it as a set when they have pocket pair, but that it is defined as trips or 3 of a kind.

[yvesaint]

here, "generally", means "always and everyone who says set and means trips just makes it confusing for everyone else"

seriously say "set" on 2+2 and you will always mean pocket pair that hits on the board

Preflop, I'd raise 200, since I usually raise 3xBB + BB/limper. This is a tricky flop, but I think I'd raise since it's pretty well disguised. (Due to most people calling with their trips.) It's a pretty safe board, but I prefer to take it down here unless he holds a weak queen or gets too attached to his draw or pocket pair in which case you might get the rest of his chips anyways.

I think 600 would be a good sized raise, but I could see smaller or larger debatable. (Even a push.) If he has Q8 (impossible?) or 88, that sucks but you still have three outs. I don't think you're getting away from this regardless.

Anyways, any read on the villain?