QQ, bet into on a K-high flop

[Inch]

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t400 (8 handed) internettexasholdem.com

MP2 (t7183)
CO (t15051)
Button (t16587)
SB (t9628)
BB (t4835)
UTG (t8816)
Hero (t20547)
MP1 (t15180)

Preflop: Hero is UTG+1 with Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t1200</font>, <font color="#666666">4 folds</font>, SB calls t1000, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>.

Flop: (t2800) T[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 5[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">SB bets t1000</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero?? </font>

[mikeJ]

Call and reevaluate turn. In addition to this possibly being Kx/TT/55, this could also be two diamonds/QJ/Tx/JJ/mid pp that's putting out a feeler bet. I think raising to mix it up is good too, but i prefer to call.

[J.A.K.]

I like raising w/ one over...you may push off a speculative K/MP etc...

[Inch]

Yeah, I raised and he thought for about 20 sec and folded. I wonder if I lost any value against his range here.

[J.A.K.]

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Yeah, I raised and he thought for about 20 sec and folded. I wonder if I lost any value against his range here.

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Nope

[sccrneo]

Also, raising here helps prevent him from cheaply drawing out on you those times when you are ahead.

[Inch]

Yeah, I thought about this some more and if he has a hand like AT, JT, 66-99 that's the last he's going to add to the pot if he doesn't improve.