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[Craigdog]

Please ignore title, i was actually on the Button for this hand:

Party Poker 6 Players - 100NL holdem

I have played with villain a few times now & he is very strong Agg player for 100NL re-raises a lot in pos. His stats for the session are 28/24/4 over 80 hands. I would say my iamge at this table is TAG as Im playing 4 tables and sticking to premiuim starting hands.

Hero Button $102.45
Villian CO $110.95

Hero holds: Q Q

Villian raises to $4, Hero raises to $14, SB folds, BB folds, Villian raises to $44, hero?

[psujohn]

Find Acid Knight's explanation about how to play QQ when the villain has AK, AA or KK.

[Acid_Knight]

Find Acid Knight's explanation about how to play QQ when the villain has AK, AA or KK.

http://www.fullcontactpoker.com/poker-foru...p;#entry2318780

He's talking about post #32, which I am not sure applies here.

The villain's stats suggest he is pretty loose and VERY aggressive preflop. If you think that there's any chance that he's gonna ever show up with AQ/JJ/TT, then just shove preflop. I think the 4 bet size here makes it so we really need to shove preflop because calling half of our stack is a mistake.

Against someone with these stats, I just shove preflop and feel pretty happy to get it in with him.

[psujohn]

I'd need a hell of a read on villain to open his 4-bet range that much. Has villain 4-bet often? The typical opponent I see at these levels with very agg pre-flop numbers loves to open but doesn't 3-bet very often and 4-bets very rarely. These villains tend to make money by getting semi-observant opponents (who only see the big pfr numbers) to play back at them pretty lightly when they pick up a hand and 4-bet.

Edit: OP did say that villain "re-raises a lot in position" so I'll assume he is an aggressive 3-bettor. At any rate I'm still not sure I mind the call/all-in on a non-A high flop line here. Villain seems agg enough post flop that if he's 4-betting AJ here he's putting it in on almost any flop.

[NoBBiR]

Based on stats, I'm shoving this like always.