JQ suited

dhaakonp · #1 02-23-2005, 02:20 PM

This is a rather loose play early on in the tourney. I like to limp in with big suited connectors and this post should be a lesson on why I shouldn't. Looking back I should've folded to the raise. So let this post be about my post flop play.

Blinds are 10/20

MP1 (805.00 in chips)
MP2 (2,070.00 in chips)
MP3 (1,340.00 in chips)
Button (1,525.00 in chips)
SB (1,695.00 in chips)
BB (695.00 in chips)
UTG+1 (545.00 in chips)
Hero (1,325.00 in chips)

Dealt to Hero [ Q [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] J [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]]

1 fold, Hero calls , MP1 calls, 1 fold, MP3 calls, SB completes, BB raises 60, Hero calls , 3 folds

FLOP: [ J [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] Q [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 6 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] ]
BB checks, Hero bets (220) , BB raises (440), Hero...?

Voltron87 · #2 02-23-2005, 02:22 PM

If this is headsup action I'm pushing. You'll be ahead most of the time.

Preflop, don't even limp with QJ in EP. It's ok to do from the button (not really even) but if you are going to do it you can't do it in EP.

dhaakonp · #3 02-23-2005, 02:26 PM

I think if it were HU or on the bubble I'm pushing as well. I know i shouldn't have called the raise but I did have position on him and figured if I caught a monster flop I'd take all his chips. The turn and river to this hand is rather funny. I'll post results in a few.

willie · #4 02-23-2005, 02:27 PM

fold preflop

push the flop when you get reraised.

he's probably sittin on aq or something like that...

and the funny part is that the turn river went

A, J

dhaakonp · #5 02-23-2005, 02:32 PM

Close. I do push and he's sitting on AA. So I had the best hand at that point and I'm winning this showdown 74% of the time. But that all goes to hell when the turn comes A and the river A.

curtains · #6 02-23-2005, 04:08 PM

So let me understand, you are asking what you should do with top two pair against a shortstacked opponent who has check raised you?
The play is so obvious it's absurd, I don't think you really don't know what to do postflop with top 2 there. However I did know the second I read that he had Aces, that you would end up losing the hand somehow.