$0.55 NLHE MTT: Playing queens too aggressive ?

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Villain is pretty loose with opening/calling from the button.
He opens from BTN I 3bet with QQ from the BB, he calls.
Range is probably medium+ PP, suited broadway, suited aces.

I cbet the flop wich is pretty good for me, no aces or kings, no connected broadways and he calls.

Turn is a 5, doesn't change much. I check to him and he bets half the pot.
Feels like he is just taking a stab at it, only leaves 8k in his stack.
I reraise making him go all-in if he calls. Wich he does.

Is this too agressive ? Should I be afraid of slow played sets, kings or aces here and try to preserve my stack?

He shows KTo wich is pretty loose as expected.
Hits one of his 3 outs wich is a bummer but thats poker :)

poker stars $0.50+$0.05 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t150/t300 Blinds + t22 - 9 players


BTN: t17480 M = 26.98
SB: t21096 M = 32.56
Hero (BB): t30372 M = 46.87
UTG: t2653 M = 4.09
UTG+1: t35855 M = 55.33
UTG+2: t5000 M = 7.72
MP1: t4493 M = 6.93
MP2: t1970 M = 3.04
CO: t11898 M = 18.36

Pre Flop: (t648) Hero is BB with Q :heart: Q :diamond:
6 folds, BTN raises to t675, 1 fold, Hero raises to t1750, BTN calls t1075

Flop: (t3848) 9 :diamond: 8 :club: 3 :spade: (2 players)
Hero bets t2886, BTN calls t2886

Turn: (t9620) 5 :heart: (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN bets t4810, Hero raises to t19240, BTN calls t8012 all in

River: (t35264) K :spade: (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: t35264
BTN shows T :heart: K :club: (a pair of Kings)
Hero shows Q :heart: Q :diamond: (a pair of Queens)
BTN wins t35264
 
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Your play here looks fine to me. The fact they he called with King high on the turn tells you what kind of player he/she is.
 
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Would play the hand the exact same way. Turn is a blank so we want to check here to induce a bet from worse with the intention to jam.

I think you are being results-oriented thinking you made a mistake because your opponent rivered a 3 outer. If you hold here like you will 93% of the time (or your opponent folds as he should), this hand never gets posted.
 
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You played the hand very good! You got him calling all-in with nothing and of course this should've been you pot. Sometimes this is just poker and sadly you gotta accept it..
 
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Just bad luck. It was the perfect play by you. The board was before the river so you did the best. I am sure the other guy didn't last too long in the tournament with such way of playing.
 
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No you played it fine. Got caught with a player who doesn't care and is looking at it as if he/she is sacrificing $0.55 vs how to play poker correctly. Had no business calling to go all in, wasn't even pot committed at that point.
 
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After the hand he said he already bluffed away too much of his stack and had to put the rest in :s

Thanks for the feedback.
 
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Your play here is fine, you just got unlucky but dont be hard on your self, as long as one makes the right mistake its always +EV
Mad_chils139 ;)
 
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After the hand he said he already bluffed away too much of his stack and had to put the rest in :s

Thanks for the feedback.
Sounds like a case of lack of self discipline :p

Always good to pick on the middle stacks when playing a big stack. They don't want to lose chips and join the small stacks so usely fold more of their hands, while small stacks might easily shove on your bet potentially putting you in an difficult situation.
 
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What's wrong? :) Played well, but opp lucky donkey :)
 
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From me is GG here! Only unlucky hand.
 
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Perfectly played QQ (with blockers to the nut straight draw and one blocker to flush draw) extracting max value from an ultra fishy loose caller.

Overpairs generally gets three streets of value against very loose fishs. Sometimes you'll be sucked out and this is life at these stakes. Most of the time they'll stack you off with little equity.

At these stakes, without high variance and strong value bets you're never getting FTs, since it's awfully hard to steal blinds.

Always go for the home run. Short stacks gets on coinflips a lot.
 
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no you were just very unlucky and villain plays the hand extremely wrong and gets rewarded on the river hitting the king that beat your pair of queens. the outcome of the hand was totally unfair because villains call on the turn was just nonsense and even after making a wrong decision he gets the king on the river. better luck next time.
 
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I would play in the same way, you just got unlucky, the villain shoud fold when you raised on the turn.
But some people cant fold some hands
 
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