Re: Guide for playing 99-QQ
I haven't read all the replies here, but here's my approach to playing these hands. I know lots of people seem to have a lot of trouble with them, but with the exception of a few situations I don't really get it. Here's my approach:
1. These hands all like to raise preflop. I raise preflop with them basically 100% of the time. I also reraise preflop nearly 100% of the time with QQ, and not infrequently with JJ. TT I will occasionally reraise with also, and 99 is not out of the question. These latter three will depend somewhat on the other players (i.e. never reraise 99 or TT against a tight calling station, but sometimes against a LAG). (Note I will also generally reraise PF with AK and often AQ, and sometimes other random hands when I feel like the situation is right, so this will affect my EV reraising with QQ-99, your mileage may vary).
2. On the flop one of three things can happen. Either:
A) I flop a set. Bombs away.
B) I flop an underpair. Bluff once, and possibly bluff again if I think villain is drawing or FOS. But generally shut down if called.
C) I flop an overpair. This is the hard one. Generally I play these very fast, and try to get away from them when I face strong resistance. The latter is hard to do right, but so be it. Overpairs are just tough hands, whether it be AA or JJ (and in fact JJ may be easier than AA).
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