$200 NLHE Full Ring: Set of Queens vs. Flush Draw

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$200 NL HE Full Ring: Set of Queens vs. Flush Draw

I was wondering if I played this hand right...A super tight player raises $17 preflop on a fairly conservative table, I call with pocket queens and a queen hits the flop, except that all three cards on the flop are spades so I check...He puts in $40, and after some consideration I call. The turn is a blank (no spade, and the queen is still the highest card on the flop). He pushes me all in for my remaining amount of chips, which is about $50 and I decide to call. He flips over a pair of kings (one of which is a spade), and I flip over my set of queens, and the river comes another spade giving him a flush. The reason I called, is because I felt as though he either had pocket kings or pocket aces, and that he didn't have the flush nor was was he chasing it, but when that fourth spade hit the flop, I was busted. Did I make the right move here? I have little experience with live cash games, and that was only my third time sitting at a live table.

Edit: I'm not sure why it says $200 in the subject line, but I was playing at a $1/2 table.
 
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I was wondering if I played this hand right...A super tight player raises $17 preflop on a fairly conservative table, I call with pocket queens and a queen hits the flop, except that all three cards on the flop are spades so I check...He puts in $40, and after some consideration I call. The turn is a blank (no spade, and the queen is still the highest card on the flop). He pushes me all in for my remaining amount of chips, which is about $50 and I decide to call. He flips over a pair of kings (one of which is a spade), and I flip over my set of queens, and the river comes another spade giving him a flush. The reason I called, is because I felt as though he either had pocket kings or pocket aces, and that he didn't have the flush nor was was he chasing it, but when that fourth spade hit the flop, I was busted. Did I make the right move here? I have little experience with live cash games, and that was only my third time sitting at a live table.

Edit: I'm not sure why it says $200 in the subject line, but I was playing at a $1/2 table.

It's called 200NL because when you buy-in for 100BB's, you have $200.

I think the hand is pretty standard, you just got unlucky.
 
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Raise the flop. Given his pf raise (8.5xbb? wow), we shouldn't be worried about a made flush (i.e., he will be making that raise more often on the basis of a big pair rather than two suited cards), top set rates to be the best hand and he's almost always drawing to two outs or to the flush.

As played, calling the turn is standard.
 
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Yes, what sly said. I would've raised the flop up to the size of the pot. You have a very wet board and you want to take the pot down now and discourage draws. Whether or not he calls, probably. But you didn't know for sure what he had and you want to discourage chasers.

The 4th spade hitting was very unlucky. You could have also filled up so yes, I would've called the all in.
 
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Raise the flop. Given his pf raise (8.5xbb? wow),

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At a live 1/2 NL game Game Raises of 10-20 are very common

2/5 Raises of 25-50 are etc etc. This isn't strange at all
 
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