QQ flushed. Top pairs getting flushed.

QQ flushed and some Questions to improve my play!

Hey,

I'm on a tourney, like always, I'm short stacked. So I get dealt QQ, everyone folds except big blind. I make a decent, but not to big raise, so that BB will call. I didn't liked to shove because i only would have won his blind. And then this happens:

PokerStars - $4.10+$0.40|75/150 NL - Holdem - 8 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

CO: 23.8 BB
Hero (BTN): 11.5 BB
SB: 41.33 BB
BB: 38.77 BB
UTG: 25.15 BB
UTG+1: 101.39 BB
MP: 76.3 BB
MP+1: 43.63 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has Q♥ Q♦

fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 2 BB, fold, BB calls 1 BB

Flop: (4.5 BB, 2 players) 8♣ 9♣ 2♠
BB checks, Hero bets 2 BB, BB calls 2 BB

Turn: (8.5 BB, 2 players) T♣
BB checks, Hero bets 7.5 BB and is all-in, BB calls 7.5 BB

River: (23.5 BB, 2 players) 6♣

BB shows 7♣ 2♣ (Straight Flush, Ten High) (Pre 17%, Flop 52%, Turn 100%)
Hero shows Q♥ Q♦ (One Pair, Queens) (Pre 83%, Flop 48%, Turn 0%)
BB wins 23.5 BB

The flop gets completly against me...but i already dedicated lot of chips in this hand so i'd liked to take the pot down! And yea how could it be else, i get flushed. This happens so often if i have a top pocket pair. What should I do to improve my play? Should I always shove preflop with top pairs, even if I only get one big blind? - I think best play would have been to have shoved after the flop - but BB would have called anyway cause he had the much bigger stack.

Thanks for any advice and opinion.

//PS Why can I only open 3 threads in 24 hours? - Id' also liked to ask if someone has advices not getting short staked in a 180 pokerstars SNG. I play tight and sometimes steal blinds until i get good hand. I go from under average to a bit over average stack and then drop down to a big under average stack 2000 Chips of average 8000 Chips because i always get crap hands like A7o, K2o, 25o... And if I get bit better hand like KJo others make often soo big raises that it would be stupid to play those cards. And once i got AKs in this tournament i was SB and everyone folded, i didn't even raise big(only about 2BB). <-- Maybe someone has advices too for this situation.

//PS2 another question.(Sry that i put so much in this thread). Do you think these 4.50$ Pokerstars 180 players SNG are appropriate to learn playing decent poker? - I think they are good cause they are not turbo(tubro, hyper-turbo and this crap sucks to learn decent poker, in my opinion). And 4.50$ is enough money that most of the players don't play stupid(like in micro 0.02$ and so on) but not too much that you loose a huge amount of your money. Am I right about this?

I think that you should raise bigger preflop so that you get a hand like that to fold. You have to remember that any hand in poker is dangerous if they get to see a flop.

2x pre is fine, flop is fine..

probably check back the turn for pot control, you don't get value from his Ac type of hands but you keep the pot smaller on possibly the worst turn in the deck.

re-evaluate on river.

shove pre, if you are playing here at all, you should be shoving. Not changing your range sizes based on your hand strength as it is just giving away vital information. If you are playing here with Ax KTo+ you would be shoving, correct? So you have to be shoving QQ aswell, as annoying as it is to only 1BB, there is no other option

^ didnt check stack sizes, lol shove pre.

ORRR fold pre?

I would've checked the turn, 2 C what was going to happen on the river. If the big blind bet the river, it would have been and easy fold, but other than that, I think you played it quite well!

oh yeah, fold pre.

You should have shoved pf.