11$ 180p, early hand QQ scary board. turn play?
 

PokerStars Game #10175224156: Tournament #51567399, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level I (10/20) - 2007/05/29 - 22:36:57 (ET)
Table '51567399 14' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: nsnrub (1680 in chips)
Seat 2: drunkmark (2050 in chips)
Seat 3: conductor1 (1800 in chips)
Seat 4: pageh656 (1460 in chips)
Seat 5: duckie22 (1410 in chips)
Seat 6: nathan5353 (1180 in chips)
Seat 7: POP TIGER (1420 in chips)
Seat 8: zerosports (1500 in chips)
Seat 9: pokergoden (1000 in chips)
nathan5353: posts small blind 10
POP TIGER: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to pageh656 [Qd Qs]
zerosports: folds
pokergoden: folds
nsnrub: raises 80 to 100
drunkmark: folds
conductor1: folds
pageh656: raises 180 to 280
duckie22: calls 280
nathan5353: folds
POP TIGER: folds
nsnrub: calls 180
*** FLOP *** [5c 4d 7c]
nsnrub: checks
pageh656: bets 200
duckie22: calls 200
nsnrub: folds
*** TURN *** [5c 4d 7c] [Tc]
pageh656: checks
duckie22: bets 220
pageh656: ???

no read on opponent. wtff

Re: 11$ 180p, early hand QQ scary board. turn play?
 

First of all, bet more on the flop. I know Harrington is a fan of smaller continuation bets, but those mostly apply when it's just raise/call preflop. In this case, we have already shown the strength of our hand preflop, so I'd make it at least 400 on that flop.

Given where you ended up, I don't see how you fold to such a small bet. I see two choices, and I'm not sure which is best:

1. Raise to 600 or so. If he calls or raises, you are done putting chips in the pot.

2. Call and check-call up to 400-500 on a safe river. Lots of cards that scare you here though.

Both of them cost you about the same amount of chips when you lose. Option 1 stops him from bluffing big on the river and pushing you off the hand, option 2 makes you more money when he's bluffing.

I might also accept 3. Call and block a safe river for ~400.

Re: 11$ 180p, early hand QQ scary board. turn play?
 

ya i didn't realize til after how small my flop bet was. what type of hands are you expecting him to show here?

Re: 11$ 180p, early hand QQ scary board. turn play?
 

Well, sometimes a flush of course. But in terms of stuff you beat, 88-JJ, AK/AQ with A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]. 66 if he's a dink.