Quote Originally Posted by Ultimate George
but stupid people play poker sometimes, so it's not always AA/KK/QQ here


You got almost 1/3 of your stack in there preflop....If a queen hits and he has a set, so be it. If he has AA here, so be it. I don't mind how you played it.

Just calling down is bad for so many reasons. What if an Ace hits? What about anything else and all of the sudden he jacks it in on *you* because you're playing so weak? OMG now you fold the best hand!
I would venture to say that min-reraise is QQ+ 90 % of the time, and the other 10 percent something like AK/JJ/TT. Why show so much strength preflop? As I and dsaxton have said it normally folds out JJ/QQ and pretty much leaves only AA to call your preflop reraise. Often times people overplay QQ to death anyways, but that's still pretty thin. When the flop comes Q high if you get any resistance on the flop after the action preflop you can be sure you're dead. QQ/AA now beat us, AK/JJ is scared to death and they're pretty much done with the hand. I guess you hope he has AKd or AQ?

By just calling preflop you allow hands like TT-QQ to go broke to you since they figure if you had AA/KK you would have reraised them (which is exactly why you just call). Now you're going broke either way to AA, but you might as well maximize value from hands you beat and putting in a fourth raise screams KK+. If you just call and the flop comes A high you could call one bet and fold to another barrell. Do you think TT-QQ is going to fire twice on an ace high flop after being called? No way. Occasionally TT-QQ will flop a set and stack you, but the difference is more than made up when the flop comes 7 high and they can't get away from their overpair. Or they could flop a set on an ace high flop and you will lose the minimum.