$25 NLHE 6-max: 6 max zoom queen high flush cooler

Hand #120022482 - Holdem(No Limit) - $0.05/$0.10 - 2019/09/24 19:33:56 UTC
Blitz Poker 6-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: sportsguy16 ($17.51)
Seat 2: crellins47 ($3.24)
Seat 3: shiggy6 ($13.77)
Seat 4: BakerMOB29 ($9.65)
Seat 5: DeaTHBunnY ($21.41)
Seat 6: os891 ($10.20)
crellins47 posts the small blind $0.05
shiggy6 posts the big blind $0.10
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to sportsguy16 [Qh Qd]
BakerMOB29 folds
DeaTHBunnY raises $0.28 to $0.28
os891 folds
sportsguy16 raises $1.20 to $1.20
crellins47 folds
shiggy6 folds
DeaTHBunnY raises $2.83 to $3.11
sportsguy16 calls $1.91
*** FLOP *** [8s 2h 9h]
Main pot $6.06 | Rake $0.31
DeaTHBunnY bets $1.99
sportsguy16 calls $1.99
*** TURN *** [8s 2h 9h] [6h]
Main pot $9.84 | Rake $0.51
DeaTHBunnY bets $5.17
sportsguy16 calls $5.17
*** RIVER *** [8s 2h 9h 6h] [3h]
Main pot $19.66 | Rake $1.03
DeaTHBunnY bets $11.14 and is all-in
sportsguy16 calls $7.24 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($3.90) returned to DeaTHBunnY
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Main pot $33.42 | Rake $1.75
sportsguy16 shows [Qh Qd] (a flush, Queen high [Qh 9h 6h 3h 2h])
DeaTHBunnY shows [Ah Ad] (a flush, Ace high [Ah 9h 6h 3h 2h])
DeaTHBunnY collected $33.42 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $33.42 | Rake $1.51 | JP Fee $0.24
Board [8s 2h 9h 6h 3h]
Seat 1: sportsguy16 (button) showed [Qh Qd] and lost with a flush, Queen high [Qh 9h 6h 3h 2h]
Seat 2: crellins47 (small blind) folded on the Pre-Flop
Seat 3: shiggy6 (big blind) folded on the Pre-Flop
Seat 4: BakerMOB29 folded on the Pre-Flop and did not bet
Seat 5: DeaTHBunnY showed [Ah Ad] and won $33.42 with a flush, Ace high [Ah 9h 6h 3h 2h]
Seat 6: os891 folded on the Pre-Flop and did not bet

Just a tough cooler, especially having an overpair on the flop. Just gotta swallow the tough pill and move on to the next hand.

Thanks man

I think, you played it fine. Actually hands like this is one of the reasons, I dont love Zoom poker. Its easier to get into deep stacked play at Zoom, and it makes coolers like this much more expensive and annoying. For this reason I actually dont hate taking money off the table in Zoom games. Sit out next blind and buy in again with a 100BB stack. Then at least this only cost you 100BB and not 175.

Other than that my only suggestion is to use a smaller 3-bet size. I just commented on another hand, where you made a very small massage 3-bet with AA, and it seem like, your sizing is very random and all over the place. As I wrote in that other post, pick a standard size in position and another out of position and just stick to them.

The standard situation, if you have with a flash, someone will also collect a flash with a big kicker. I do not like the game to the turn, because this is a game not by pot odds , the opponent could easily put together two pairs or a set. However, on the river this is an easy call.

Lots of ways to improve.

3-bet size is wayy too big. Pick a size, between 3 to 4x, and stick with that.

Given your large 3-bet, his 4-bet is super strong. AK, JJ+. Against this you have 47% equity. If he is flatting with Jacks, then your equity vs. his 4-bet drops to 40%.

It depends on the opponent, but as played I'd fold here (someone please call me out if I'm too nitty). You might be ahead, but if you will face a flop bet on a low board (as you did) what will you do? If you call you will want to keep the pot smaller (hard to do now) unless you hit a set.

On the flop you have to think of what you beat... AK and JJ, split with QQ... lose to KK and AA. He bets 1/3 pot, 4 to one for you and you are good at least that often. But you shouldn't feel too good about this.

Turn he bets very large, you should know you are beat. His large bet implies he does not have the A of hearts, or that he's worried you don't have a heart and won't put in more money if one comes on the river. But I think the bet is too big for implied odds to make sense. At best you'd break even. the bet is 50 BBs and you guys are playing with 170 BB effective.

You had a lot of doors to leave, some more nitty than others. You have to know yourself and predict action on future streets... can you call 2-3 streets with just a pair of queens?

I would always 5 bet jam QQ preflop. Played that way, QQ vs AA is an unfortunate cooler.

teh_colonel_saigon said:

It depends on the opponent, but as played I'd fold here (someone please call me out if I'm too nitty). You might be ahead, but if you will face a flop bet on a low board (as you did) what will you do? If you call you will want to keep the pot smaller (hard to do now) unless you hit a set.

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I do think, folding to the 4-bet is to nitty. We have position postflop, and as you say, he could at least be 4-betting AK. Postflop its just a very unfortunate situation, since we have Qh, but he have Ah, so once again he have us dominated. Without Qh in our hand, or on a different board runout, its easier to get away. I was very close to preferring a river fold though. We are getting a sick price, but just how often is he really bluffing here? For many players its like zero percent of the time.