First post for me, and wanted to get opinions on this hand which has been bugging me since it got played yesterday:

NL $1/2 H/E 6 Seated

New player sits down w/ $100 UTG and raises on first hand to $8, button calls and you're in BB w/ AA, so you raise to $18. Both call.

Flop: 9QQ

You bet $20, and seat 3 raises to $40. Button folds.

Q1 = Would you call?

Turn: 10

Seat 3 goes all-in.

Q2 = If you called, now what?

I like your pre-flop raise.

I don't particularly like your move on the flop. With $55 in the pot, you either have to make a serious move on it or C/R. A $20 bet just isn't going to give you any real information here.

If you call the flop, you are getting 5 to 1 on your clal.
Given that you call the flop, the river all-in is giving you better than 4 to 1. I would say, given his aggression, that you are up against KK or JJ or something similar at least 1 in every 4 times.

Yeah, I'm betting the pot on the flop

If he goes all in after that bet, well then it's a tough decision, but with his initial raise, unless he has AQ or KQ you're in great shape. Those are the onlytwo legit raising hands with a Q (except quads of course )

I'd reluctantly call, because I do think he'd have JJ or KK or even 1010, 99, or88 often enough to make it worthwhile.

I raise with all pairs 88 or higher

I agree that you need a stronger bet on the flop. The weak bet invites weak calls, as well as slowplaying smooth calls, giving you no information. A strong bet will give you probably either a fold or a raise, and you'll know where you're at.

You're really only worried about AQ, or KQs, I think. I think if he hit the full on the turn with TT, he'd probably wait to the river to push. Could make a less strong argument for 99, because he might very well be worried about your exact hand.

His raise was small enough that he's basically asking you to stay in the hand. Proceed cautiously.

First post for me, and wanted to get opinions on this hand which has been bugging me since it got played yesterday:

another newbie, sweet

NL $1/2 H/E 6 Seated

New player sits down w/ $100 UTG and raises on first hand to $8, button calls and you're in BB w/ AA, so you raise to $18. Both call.

I'm guessing there is roughly $17 in the pot when it gets to you and you raise to $18. I really don't like that raise at all because it is pretty much a minimum raise and you only pop it to $18. I think you have to make a 1.5 * pot raise preflop because you are out of position and you want to try to get one of them to fold or get allin preflop some how. Either way I think you have to reraise more preflop.


Flop: 9QQ

You bet $20, and seat 3 raises to $40. Button folds.

Now I think there *should* be a total of: $3(blinds)+$16(original raise and caller)+$16(your reraise-blind)+$20(what each one had to call with after the reraise)=$55. So now with $55 in the pot you bet about 1/3 of the pot and get minimum raised to $40. Well you have to call the $20 from the miniumum raise but I think you should have reraised the pot because right now there is $125 in the pot and the player UTG should only have about $32 left in his stack.

Q1 = Would you call?

I would put the UTG player allin on the flop.

Turn: 10

Seat 3 goes all-in.

Q2 = If you called, now what?

call, you are getting 4:1 on your money and I think you have the best hand here at least that many times.

thanks allinbluff for reading my post.

i didn't read any responses before I posted

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