nl400 hands

I dont quite have the BR for playing nl400 6max so I will buy in short. Easier to play aggressive as well. Anyways I wanna learn SH because the players at least on PP are significantly looser than at the full tables.

***** Hand History for Game 2600518713 *****
$400 NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, August 26, 10:46:18 EDT 2005
Table Table 49045 (6 max) (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 2: dodger224 ( $143.40 )
Seat 3: digital_EYE ( $82.50 )
Seat 4: Terrificante ( $49 )
Seat 5: protege20k ( $238.80 )
Seat 6: VPingu ( $137.40 )
Seat 1: huyner ( $87.20 )
huyner posts small blind [$2].
dodger224 posts big blind [$4].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to VPingu [ Qs Qd ]
digital_EYE raises [$8].
protege20k calls [$8].
dodger224: nice pot for 3 k's
VPingu raises [$23].
huyner folds.
dodger224: ha ha ha
VPingu: I had a lot of faith in you
huyner: it was acutally a boat
dodger224 folds.
digital_EYE calls [$15].
protege20k calls [$15].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 7s, Js, 8s ]
digital_EYE bets [$25].
protege20k calls [$25].
dodger224: thanks for the info huyner
VPingu is all-In [$114.40]
digital_EYE folds.
protege20k calls [$89.40].
** Dealing Turn ** [ Kc ]
** Dealing River ** [ 2d ]
protege20k shows [ Td, Ts ] a pair of tens.
VPingu shows [ Qs, Qd ] a pair of queens.
VPingu wins $326.80 from the main pot with a pair of queens.

Should I raise with QQ short handed, I thought that my raise was enought to isolate but it wasnt. the real problem arises on the flop. I dont like calling and raising commits me anyways..

I'll bet you cursed out loud when the K came on the turn. nicely played and nice pot. I like your play throughout the hand, not much really that you should have done differently, I would have played the same.

You most definitely should be raising like that preflop with QQ, especially w/ position like that. It should have chased out inferior hands, but it didn't. If you're seeing a high hands to flop ratio (like above 55-60%) players are playing more than their share of hands like low PP and suited connectors (and junk) in an effort to catch and destack. It gets a bit unnerving to know that you're not only up against a calling station but instead a calling table, but once you realize that they're putting themselves into a position where you can easily value bet them, then it's not so bad. I just played a 400nl table last night where this was happening. You have to tighten up hand selection a bit, but where you really have to adjust is the raise levels. For example, here, for some reason, you got 2 callers a 6BB bet (4BB raise). TO me that is an indication of a very loose table. While you hate to even think that you'd have to bet more than that to actually prevent loose calls, keep it in context: you don't have to bet 8BB to isolate at every table, just this one, right now. This is also the sort of table where they'll bluff at made draws, even if the the draw wasn't their own. Last night I won a buyin by calling a guy who was obviously on a missed straight draw but decided to all in rep the river flush card. So in a weird way you have to tighten up on hand selection slightly but loosen up on your calls. Every table is different.

Looks goot to me. Keep 'em coming.

I decided to play short stacked short handed, just a hand or two before this guy called me down with just middle pair. I just couldnt decide if he had AK/AQ or a high pair. so I just decided to go with it.. aaaand the ATM left the table after the hand..

***** Hand History for Game 2612599780 *****
$400 NL Texas Hold'em - Sunday, August 28, 13:52:46 EDT 2005
Table Table 36751 (6 max) (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: SeaWassssp ( $844.50 )
Seat 2: Lou_Loc ( $519.81 )
Seat 3: Oriokesioni ( $219.90 )
Seat 4: taishiishi ( $311.30 )
Seat 6: Omak69 ( $1095.80 )
Seat 5: VPingu ( $207 )
Oriokesioni posts small blind [$2].
taishiishi posts big blind [$4].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to VPingu [ Js Jh ]
VPingu raises [$15].
Omak69 folds.
SeaWassssp folds.
Lou_Loc folds.
Oriokesioni raises [$68].
taishiishi folds.
VPingu calls [$55].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 6s, 2d, 2h ]
Oriokesioni checks.
VPingu bets [$55].
Oriokesioni calls [$55].
** Dealing Turn ** [ 4c ]
Oriokesioni checks.
VPingu is all-In [$82]
Oriokesioni calls [$82].
** Dealing River ** [ 7d ]
Oriokesioni shows [ Ad, 9d ] a pair of twos.
VPingu shows [ Js, Jh ] two pairs, jacks and twos.
VPingu wins $416 from the main pot with two pairs, jacks and twos.