4/180, QQ line check
 

This hand felt really strange to me. Villain and I both in top 5 chips at this point, early in the tourney. No real reads, and villain probably doesn't have many on me either (we weren't at the same table when we both won our stacks). Comments on all streets welcome, but turn and river especially. I was trying to figure out what villain could be playing so passively (limp call, call, call) here for relatively large bets.

Poker Stars
No Limit Holdem Tournament
Blinds: t25/t50
9 players
Converter

Stack sizes:
UTG: t2315
UTG+1: t2718
MP1: t1625
MP2: t1827
MP3: t1525
CO: t5620
Button: t1710
Hero: t5465
BB: t1290

Pre-flop: (9 players) Hero is SB with Q[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]
5 folds, CO calls t50 <font color="aaaaaa">(pot was t75)</font>, Button folds, <font color="#cc0000">Hero raises to t200</font>, BB folds, CO calls t150 <font color="aaaaaa">(pot was t450)</font>.

Flop: 2[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 9[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 8[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (t450, 2 players)
<font color="#cc0000">Hero bets t400</font>, CO calls t400 <font color="aaaaaa">(pot was t1250)</font>.

Turn: 5[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (t1250, 2 players)
<font color="#cc0000">Hero bets t1200</font>, CO calls t1200 <font color="aaaaaa">(pot was t3650)</font>.

River: 4[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (t3650, 2 players)
<font color="#cc0000">Hero is all-in t3665</font>

Re: 4/180, QQ line check
 

1st instinct is like JT[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 76[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] since he limped-called your raise.

I don't think you can slow down until *maybe* the river,
but, yeah...villain's line is pretty wtf!

-ZEN

Re: 4/180, QQ line check
 

You might want to bet more on the flop to discourage draws, and just shove the turn.

Re: 4/180, QQ line check
 

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You might want to bet more on the flop to discourage draws, and just shove the turn.

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I really hope this is a joke, you wanna shove 4x pot on the turn?

Anyway, I probably would have bet 900-1000 on the turn, but it's not a big deal. I don't like the river shove, what's calling? Villain's line is really, really odd. If he wasn't being such a station I'd like a check on the river to induce a bluff, but with this guy's calling tendencies I'd fire 1/2 or so trying not to lose a lone 9.