Thread: QQ too passive?
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Old 11-19-2007, 12:38 AM
Quester Quester is offline
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Default Re: QQ too passive?

Stick around the forums because you really played this badly.

First, you need to 3-bet QQ preflop. You are going to be out of position on this hand and you have a monster. You don't want to make it cheap for your opponents to draw against you and you want to narrow the range of hands you think your opponent may be playing. Most importantly, you want to make money on your hand. That means betting and raising, not calling (usually).

Given that you didn't 3-bet preflop, you should have either:
1. Led the flop, and pushed over any raise
2. check/raised BB

Calling on the flop doesn't help you at all. You still have no idea what your opponents are playing, and your hand still has a lot of value because it it unlikely the flop improved them.

Checking the turn doesn't help you either. But since you've found yourself here, you are compelled to call BB's push. Your hand still may be good, and if it was good enough to call the overbet on the flop, then it is good enough to call the overbet on the turn.

You need to get the money in the middle hard and fast with these types of hands, while narrowing down your opponent's range as much as possible (you do this by betting and raising, not checking and calling).
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