running scared

[NorthPacific 25]

I have noticed that I am laying down a lot of winning hands lately and was wondering if I was running scared from a series of bad beats. Here is one hand that I recently had, take a look and analyse please.Game #707816474 - $0.25/$0.50 Texas Hold'em - 2005/01/31-15:50:35.4 (CST)Table "Austral" (real money) -- Seat 1 is the buttonSeat 1: fourxfour ($9.35 in chips)Seat 2: Zeatrix ($10.05 in chips)Seat 3: qrupafjlzxcv ($2.73 in chips)Seat 4: NorthPacific ($12.40 in chips)Seat 5: cardacer ($14.58 in chips)Seat 6: danbach01 ($6.10 in chips)Seat 7: kingfish21 ($14.35 in chips)Seat 10: IrieMon ($11.25 in chips)Zeatrix : Post Small Blind ($0.10)qrupafjlzxcv: Post Big Blind ($0.25)Dealing...Dealt to NorthPacific [ Th ]Dealt to NorthPacific [ Qs ]NorthPacific: Call ($0.25)cardacer: Call ($0.25)danbach01: Raise ($0.50)kingfish21: Fold IrieMon : Call ($0.50)fourxfour: Call ($0.50)Zeatrix : Fold qrupafjlzxcv: Call ($0.25)NorthPacific: Call ($0.25)cardacer: Call ($0.25)*** FLOP *** : [ 5c 5d 8h ]qrupafjlzxcv: Check NorthPacific: Check cardacer: Bet ($0.25)danbach01: Call ($0.25)IrieMon : Call ($0.25)fourxfour: Call ($0.25)qrupafjlzxcv: Call ($0.25)NorthPacific: Fold

[pokerplayer75 0]

why would you even consider calling. With five players you can be almost certain that somebody has something.

[dominiksdad 0]

I have noticed that I am laying down a lot of winning hands lately

Believe me this was not a winning hand.Post some where you actually had a hand if you want constructive advice.Like the previous poster said you should never have called the pre-flop raise with QTo.

[NorthPacific 25]

Yes I will agree that QTo UTG was a bit loose, but after calling the bet I think not calling the raise would have been a mistake, especially with 5 people staying in the hand.

[JFarrell20 1]

This fold looks fine to me... why would you chase this??

[randomization 0]

Two things: 1)QTo from UTG is not a "bit loose." It is extremely loose. Even at a weak table, you don't want to start playing unsuited medium cards from early position. Though you'll play a few more cards against a loose table, those will almost always be suited, because they hold up better against large tables. 2) There is no reason to think about calling on the flop. With 5 players in, the chance that one of them has a 5 is not bad, in which case you are drawing dead. Even if there is no 5, there could be straight draws or overcards that make it less likely that you win when a Q or T hit. I think you pretty clearly made the right move folding here.

[NorthPacific 25]

And now here is the rest of the story,The reason I asked this question is because it seems that every time I lay down a hand, the next card is mine, unless, I don't lay down, then the card is someone else's.The turn card in this hand was a T, the river a Q. The summary, two pair QT would have won the hand. The PF raiser had AK, which I thought was possible, since he became a calling station after the flop. The better after the flop, who I but on a 5, had pr 4's for the winning hand of 2pr 4's and 3's. just wanted to make sure I wasn't laying down hands I shouldn't be and losing money I should be winning.