How to play an overpair

[Guido]

Hi all,

I'm pretty new to NL and so far it hasn't been my thing. I'm down about 15 buy ins after 50K hands, it even put me down for the year [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img].

I have a question about playing overpairs. Today I got stacked about 10 times with AA, KK, QQ or AK. Here's an example.

Say I'm at the button with KK in a 2/4 NL game and we all have $400. There is one limper and I raise it to $18. The BB calls as does the limper. So there is about $56 in the pot and the flop comes Q [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] 8 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]7 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]. I bet out $40 and it gets raised to $120. What do you do? Fold? Call? Raise? All-in?

What if it's raised to $80? What about a Q [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]8 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]5 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] flop? If you call and they bet big again on the turn, now what? If you raise how much?

I know, a lot of questions but I have no clue how to play these hands after today. Sometimes I went all in today and almost every time they had a set. When I call they keep betting and end up losing most of the time. So please help me out!

Thanks,

Guido

[Eagles]

I normally stack off in these spots. Reads would definitely be helpful though. Hand two if you get raised on the flop it's an incredibly easy push because it's such a drawy board.

[oyvindgee]

Board texture + your own and villain's image is key. Nits should be able to get away from overpairs a lot of the time, more aggro players can allow themselves to felt it more often.