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Title: Queens in the Big Blind
Post by: ThinkerJE on September 12, 2011, 22:48:20 PM
Partypoker NLHE Deepstack 85 players left - money starts at 80

Not been at the table for that long - so no opinions formed on the player styles/ranges

Blinds 500/1000 ante 100

UTG +1 bets 2,500 out of 50k stack
Hijack 3 bets to 6k out of 18k stack
Button flats 6k out of 27k stack
Your hero is BB with QQ and 14k behind

Thoughts?
Title: Re: Queens in the Big Blind
Post by: AMRN on September 12, 2011, 22:56:15 PM
Depends on your money situation.... if you need to cash, then I think it"s reasonable to fold here so close to the bubble..... but if playing for the win, I"m going to struggle to fold QQ with only 13x behind and a big pot in the middle.

I think I"m shoving here most of the time.

Does the fact that you are 5 from the bubble cause you to think differently? If so, how would you play this if the bubble had just burst.......?
Title: Re: Queens in the Big Blind
Post by: samuel_9 on September 12, 2011, 23:02:15 PM
shoveing all day long
Title: Re: Queens in the Big Blind
Post by: ThinkerJE on September 12, 2011, 23:22:24 PM

Does the fact that you are 5 from the bubble cause you to think differently? If so, how would you play this if the bubble had just burst.......?


Included it more for information purposes really Steve - as you might take it into account when considering the ranges of the other players.

I am not bothered about the min cash - just making the correct decision.

I would have done the same thing after the bubble had burst.
Title: Re: Queens in the Big Blind
Post by: TheSnapper on September 13, 2011, 02:34:37 AM

Partypoker NLHE Deepstack 85 players left - money starts at 80

Not been at the table for that long - so no opinions formed on the player styles/ranges

Blinds 500/1000 ante 100

UTG +1 bets 2,500 out of 50k stack
Hijack 3 bets to 6k out of 18k stack
Button flats 6k out of 27k stack
Your hero is BB with QQ and 14k behind

Thoughts?


Utg +1 raise could be with a wide range.

HJ 3 bet for 6k of 18k is a really strong bet and often a monster, would expect he jams all 18 bb"s with his strong but not super strong holdings AK, AQ, JJ for example.

Button then comes along and flats which by sheer numbers alone make it more likely QQ is behind.

Yes we have a monster hand for our stack size but the action suggests our equity is pretty slim. We are likely to get called in at least two spots so have pot odds of ~3/1 but our equity is gonna be 30% max and as low as 18%.

I think its a sigh fold.
Title: Re: Queens in the Big Blind
Post by: Mikeyboy9361 on September 13, 2011, 09:59:40 AM
Wow, really folding Brendan? I couldn"t get it in fast enough, with QQ and 14BBs, if I am beat so be it, but a great opportunity to really get back in the mix.
Title: Re: Queens in the Big Blind
Post by: deanp27 on September 13, 2011, 12:27:37 PM
I think this is a fold......

.....and I hate folding
Title: Re: Queens in the Big Blind
Post by: ck1888 on September 13, 2011, 14:01:24 PM
Fold for me as well.  Taking into account reasons listed above and some other factors such as stack sizes, bet amounts and position.  As we have no reads some times you have to take things on face value. You have to ask yourself what do we know ?

First of all we are late in a deepstack mtt probably around 800 runners and near the money. Being deepstack there is more of a chance better players are left. The opener is opening from early into the whole table and into a whole load of re shove stacks. So with no previous reads of opening light that looks strong.

The hj is basically saying am going with this and as said before i think he re shoves everything you beat and 3 bets what has you in trouble. He is basically polarizing his range here. It looks super strong with no previous reads.

As for the button  :o  whatever he has it"s a lemon.

Yes we have QQ but everything about this situation stinks of trouble.  I have made this call before and it"s the classic i knew i was behind i should have folded spot. 
Title: Re: Queens in the Big Blind
Post by: bhoywonder70 on September 13, 2011, 14:25:23 PM

Depends on your money situation.... if you need to cash, then I think it"s reasonable to fold here so close to the bubble..... but if playing for the win, I"m going to struggle to fold QQ with only 13x behind and a big pot in the middle.

I think I"m shoving here most of the time.

Does the fact that you are 5 from the bubble cause you to think differently? If so, how would you play this if the bubble had just burst.......?


Exactly this.....fold everything or shove....depends what u want...min cash or a shot at the ft
Title: Re: Queens in the Big Blind
Post by: jbworldwide on September 13, 2011, 14:39:14 PM
Shove, get called by Ax, ace on flop/river, groan, go to bed

I haven"t seen one good reason to fold yet
Title: Re: Queens in the Big Blind
Post by: AMRN on September 13, 2011, 14:52:14 PM

I have made this call before and it"s the classic i knew i was behind i should have folded spot



LOL - so many times do I think that as I hit the call button.........
Title: Re: Queens in the Big Blind
Post by: poker_jason on September 13, 2011, 21:26:06 PM


Partypoker NLHE Deepstack 85 players left - money starts at 80

Not been at the table for that long - so no opinions formed on the player styles/ranges

Blinds 500/1000 ante 100

UTG +1 bets 2,500 out of 50k stack
Hijack 3 bets to 6k out of 18k stack
Button flats 6k out of 27k stack
Your hero is BB with QQ and 14k behind

Thoughts?


Utg +1 raise could be with a wide range.

HJ 3 bet for 6k of 18k is a really strong bet and often a monster, would expect he jams all 18 bb"s with his strong but not super strong holdings AK, AQ, JJ for example.

Button then comes along and flats which by sheer numbers alone make it more likely QQ is behind.

Yes we have a monster hand for our stack size but the action suggests our equity is pretty slim. We are likely to get called in at least two spots so have pot odds of ~3/1 but our equity is gonna be 30% max and as low as 18%.

I think its a sigh fold.


Given the information provided this. Me - I probably go broke. I have so much to learn......
Title: Re: Queens in the Big Blind
Post by: Sef on September 14, 2011, 00:30:46 AM
fold for me here.... the 3bet im 50/50 about calling but with the flat call afterwards i think im sigh folding... purely for the fact you have no info/reads AA, KK could easily be there!
Title: Re: Queens in the Big Blind
Post by: George2Loose on September 14, 2011, 14:53:23 PM
So close to the bubble it"s probs a fold.


Otherwise I call and embrace the variance
Title: Re: Queens in the Big Blind
Post by: noble1 on September 14, 2011, 17:42:15 PM

Shove, get called by Ax, ace on flop/river, groan, go to bed

I haven"t seen one good reason to fold yet


this logic/reason ? - http://www.paulsextonpoker.com/tip?tip=115
Title: Re: Queens in the Big Blind
Post by: jbworldwide on September 14, 2011, 21:02:11 PM


Shove, get called by Ax, ace on flop/river, groan, go to bed

I haven"t seen one good reason to fold yet


this logic/reason ? - http://www.paulsextonpoker.com/tip?tip=115


I think his reasoning is at the more extreme end, when you essentially have dust.

Yes you can fold QQ here, but I doubt the benefit is double the buy in in this situation

So no one wants to be the bubble boy here, but surely this is a great spot to accumulate chips, if and only if there was a person that had busted on hand for hand and had more chips than me prior to the hand, I might consider folding. But then that"s me.
Title: Re: Queens in the Big Blind
Post by: Marty719 on September 29, 2011, 17:04:58 PM

I think this is a fold......

.....and I hate folding


This was my exact first thought!!
Title: Re: Queens in the Big Blind
Post by: mousebob on October 02, 2011, 23:06:25 PM


Depends on your money situation.... if you need to cash, then I think it"s reasonable to fold here so close to the bubble..... but if playing for the win, I"m going to struggle to fold QQ with only 13x behind and a big pot in the middle.

I think I"m shoving here most of the time.

Delete "most" & insert "all".