Re: Help playing QQ in SNGs

On Tue, 31 Jul 07 19:30:04 GMT, The Reamer <bmichel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Screw AK being the hardest hand to play, QQ is killing me.

How do you play the hand?

Assuming a 9 person table, equal stacks, unknown players, and you are in middle
position,

1. EP raises 4xbb, raise, fold or call? (I doubt a fold)
2. I raise 4xBB, button reraises, same choice.

The problem is that people play TT, JJ, AK and AQ the way they play AA.

Help!

You want a reasonable edge to play a pot committing reraise. QQ is easy
to play early on. Nine players sounds early on to me. (Later it's easy to
play too. . .all-in baby!)

With some room to play after the flop I take a flop after a reraise, or jam.
Unless that's a specific player I know is always very, very serious about
a reraise (AA-QQ kind of guy and I have the other two queens).

Then I really have to play it by ear.

If they play TT-AA, AQ+ the same way, though, you are in pretty good shape.

Text results appended to pokerstove.txt

441,774,432 games 0.016 secs 27,610,902,000 games/sec

Board:
Dead:

equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 47.008% 45.67% 01.34% 201739464 5929362.00 { TT+,
AQs+, AKo }
Hand 1: 52.992% 51.65% 01.34% 228176244 5929362.00 { QQ }

The situation, though, is you are just slightly ahead.

You don't want to jam there because at that point, what calls your all-in
crushes you. It's even more important there to take a flop and even
if it goes all in postflop you haven't done any worse than if you called
all-in on the flop yourself.

And if you can eke a couple extra points out of it with better play than
your opponent, you're going to profit more. Even if you're both equal
players the situation is still profitable.

So I say take a flop to a reraise, reraise a raiser most of the time,
but don't jam into a reraiser who can lay down the bottom part of
a TT-AA, AK, AQs type reraising range. You could also exclude the
AQ from that range entirely, and be in more or less the same shape.
(You having two queens makes it a fairly insignificant part of his
range anyway.)
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