QQ - meets resistance. How do I continue?

[Borax]

Hold'em NL (£0.15/£0.25) Ring game

SB (£15.90 in chips)
BB (£9.50 in chips)
UTG (£20.95 in chips)
UTG+1 (£37.37 in chips)
Hero (UTG+2) (£44.36 in chips)
MP1 (£20.92 in chips)
MP2 (£27.57 in chips)
MP3 (£55.83 in chips)
CO (£3.28 in chips)
Button (£10.60 in chips)


SB posts £0.15
BB posts £0.25

dealt to Hero Q [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]Q [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]

UTG folds
UTG+1: calls £0.25
Hero: raises to £1.25
2 folds
MP3: calls £1.25
CO: calls £1.25
3 folds
UTG+1: calls £1

----- FLOP ----- 6 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]4 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]7 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]

UTG+1: bets £1.25
Hero: raises to £5
MP3: folds
CO: is all-in £2.03
UTG+1: calls £3.75

----- TURN ----- 9 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]

UTG+1: bets £4
Hero: ?

Do I raise again? Just call? fold because he must hold a set?

Read UTG+1: Vol put $ in pot= 36%, PRF raise = 0% (42 hands PT)
No read on CO

[GrandmaStabone]

is this no-limit? the raises seem off to me, or maybe im just a boorish american who doesnt undertsnad the pound denominations.

[Jago]

NL is here
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/po...rd=ssplnlpoker

fwiw i would call turn and call a reasonable river bet

[Fantam]

This needs to be moved to the NL small stakes part of the forum.

Were you playing live for the game to be in £ ?

Anyway, I dont like UTG's feeler bets. I dont think that you can give him credit for a set with those small bets, and you dont want to allow him to draw out on you cheaply.

I would have made a slightly bigger flop bet of say £7.50, and then put him all-in on the turn. I think that most of the time, you would have the best hand.

[Borax]

Oh, sorry about the wrong posting (great start at the forum...). Could the moderator please move my post, or should I repost?

Thanks for answering anyway. I play online with £ on William Hill poker.
So raise 1.25-7.50£ on the flop and push the turn? What scares me is that some people holding sets tend to bet into me to provoke that big reraise. I lost my stack the day before with AA in a similar situation.

[Fantam]

I suppose it comes down to trying to get a read on how your opponents like to play.

I would not want to allow my opponent to draw cheaply on this board if he had a hand like A5s or say 55.

By making a bigger flop raise, you would be making it more expensive for your opponent to call if he was drawing.

You would also hopefully get a better idea of the strength of his hand if he called.

I would probably still have pushed on the turn and lost a lot of chips.

But, sometimes its difficult to get away from losing a lot of chips with a decent hand. My understanding is that usually you will either win a small pot with AA or KK, or else you will lose a big pot !

Hopefully, that will be compensated for by the times you win.