QQ Line check

[fasin8ing]

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PokerStars Game #4435338629: Tournament #22058426, Hold'em No Limit -
Level I (10/20) - 2006/03/27 - 19:53:23 (ET)
Table '22058426 1' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: brady20 (1500 in chips)
Seat 2: heitz00 (1460 in chips)
Seat 3: J's Big Boy (1620 in chips)
Seat 4: LouZanaLean (1420 in chips)
Seat 5: G4M3R (1500 in chips)
Seat 6: win1123 (1500 in chips)
Seat 7: MONEYBAG$21 (1500 in chips)
Seat 8: fasin8ing (1500 in chips)
Seat 9: towjumper (1500 in chips)
J's Big Boy: posts small blind 10
LouZanaLean: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to fasin8ing [Qc Qd]
G4M3R: folds
win1123: raises 60 to 80
MONEYBAG$21: folds
fasin8ing: calls 80
towjumper: folds
brady20: folds
heitz00: folds
J's Big Boy: folds
LouZanaLean: folds
*** FLOP *** [As 7h Qh]
win1123: bets 120
fasin8ing: raises 255 to 375
win1123: calls 255
*** TURN *** [As 7h Qh] [Th]
win1123: checks
fasin8ing: checks
*** RIVER *** [As 7h Qh Th] [6s]
win1123: checks
fasin8ing: bets 350
win1123: calls 350

[chris_1069]

I dunno... personally I don't like it.
Re-raise pre-flop for sure, then make a bigger re-raise on the flop.

Turn I can kinda understand the check behind after the 3rd heart and perhaps gaped straight card but I would much rather make a smallish information bet to save myself money on the river then check and give him a free card to improve if he is sitting on a high heart or who knows what right now??

River I dunno.. by now I guess he has nothing but your just setting yourself up for a nice re-raise on a scary board...

[givememyleg]

I really like your post flop play. I probably would have re raised preflop, QQ is a very strong hand. I like your flop raise, I would have popped it up a bit higher though. You checked when the flush card hit - I most likely would have also, but might be good to see where your hand is. No one checks a flush twice, well rarely he most likely would want some value from it, and you bet with confidence of the best hand. I like it.

[Aplomado]

Postflop play is good, preflop you gotta re-raise with Queens.

[fasin8ing]

I think any other card on the turn but a ten or a heart Iam really bumping this up. Thanks for the advice. I was thinking re raising.. I think this was the second hand.. Thought I would play the flop at least. I expect crazy shit like 9 9 pushing over me.. Which is find, dont get me wrong. I have bubbled the last 5 tournys. 4th place 4 times in a row. This was my fifth tourny.. I have to try extracting more value out of my sets. Since I have moved to stars 1500 starting out has been hard for me to double up without a coin flip. I dunno .. I dunno.. Definetly re raising next time to a raise of 80 from one player.. I looked back at that and smacked myself. Thanks for your advice.. Makes sense.

[vqc]

Preflpo is debatable

Everything else is good in my opinion.

Questino do you
lets say we were playing a form of power where u no longer had position on the turn.
Do you check that turn card or bet the turn card?

[Lcplinfalt]

Im with chris here. Reraise PF and I believe Id bet out the turn. If you get reraised on the turn you can make a decision then. You definetly want to mix in a few checks here to balance but I like the bet. If you check thinking he may be trapping then he leads in big what now? The decision is tougher without the turn bet. You could argue it both ways. Hope you get out of the bubble funk, Thats always tough.

[fasin8ing]

Preflpo is debatable

Everything else is good in my opinion.

Questino do you
lets say we were playing a form of power where u no longer had position on the turn.
Do you check that turn card or bet the turn card?

I bet the turn card OOP if I had 3 queens still. To represent the flush or the straight. I check or bet the river for a cheap showdown, depends on how fast he called my turn bet. If I got raised.. Iam still looking for a cheap showdown. Iam really not fully invested in this hand. The flop bet would have been different .. I would have bet the pot OOP.

[Aplomado]

I like the turn check because a check/call after hitting a nut flush, or even just a flush, is a very common slowplay. This move makes the river cheaper and thwarts a slowplay attempt.