QJo - middle pair heads up

ccwhoelse? · #1 12-07-2004, 09:22 PM

Party Poker 0.5/1 Hold'em (9 handed) converter

Preflop: Hero is UTG+1 with J[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img].
UTG folds, Hero raises, MP1 folds, MP2 folds, MP3 folds, CO folds, Button folds, SB calls, BB folds.

Flop: (5 SB) 3[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (2 players)
SB bets, Hero raises, SB calls.

Turn: (4.50 BB) 3[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets, SB calls.

River: (6.50 BB) 2[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets, SB calls.

Final Pot: 8.50 BB
Main Pot: 8.50 BB, between SB and Hero.

i had been showing down some good hands prior to this, so i figure most people were folding to my raises.

maybe when he bet on the flop, i should have credited him with a solid hand.

Nick C · #2 12-07-2004, 09:25 PM

Did you have AQo or QJo?

Hack · #3 12-07-2004, 09:28 PM

He said he had middle pair so he couldn't have AQ, otherwise he would have top two pair then. I assume the subject is just a typo.

ccwhoelse? · #4 12-07-2004, 09:40 PM

sorry, yea typo. fixed it now.

Shillx · #5 12-07-2004, 09:41 PM

PF raise is crazy. Call the flop here. Fold the turn if he bets again. The board pair cuts your outs by 3/5 if he has an ace.

Shill

milesdyson · #6 12-07-2004, 09:41 PM

I don't like the PFR with QJo. I'd fold.

Nick C · #7 12-07-2004, 10:44 PM

I would probably just fold on the flop, thinking SB probably has top pair, and I don't want to draw to five outs in this relatively small pot. (He did bet into an ace after you raised preflop, after all.) Possibly he hopes the ace scares you and is taking a stab, but I wouldn't like the chances that that's the case enough to continue.

If you think you can push your opponent off of a weak ace on the flop, then that's one reason to raise here. But I don't think most 0.5/1 players fold top pair very often.

Hack · #8 12-07-2004, 11:03 PM

I never like raising with this hand and I would probably fold it from this position in a 9-person game.

Nick C · #9 12-07-2004, 11:04 PM

I routinely fold QJo. I play it sometimes in late position and also in the blinds, but that's about it.

Entity · #10 12-07-2004, 11:08 PM

This should be a routine fold in EP, never a raise.

Rob