Last couple of weeks I have been able to earn about $100 every evening on average. Suddenly, yesterday, everything fucked up. As always, I try to see what I could have done differently and I think one of my hands was real bad, even though tough to fold. I played shorthanded (6 seated) .50/$1 NL. I am at the button and everyone has called the BB dollar. The SB folds. My hand is 44.

The flop comes Q64. 2 seats ahead of me, a guy raises $2. What am I supposed to do. We raise each other and I go all in later and lose.

I was abit tired when I played the hand and I had only played at the table for about 10 hands. However, I had a feeling that the player 2 seats ahead of me was pretty tough.

With abit more thinking here, I probably would have folded it. What could he possibly have had besides a set of 6. It smelled catch a cheap setfrom the hole table and especially from this guy. A pair of Q would be strong enough too push PF even for a passive call station or a nit.


What would you do in this situation? Raise and try a steal PF? Fold even though on the button? Fold when the 666 guy starts to raise.