KQ off suite on button?

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In a tournament, what is the proper way to play KQ off suite on the button?

Do you raise it, limp it, call a small raise?
 
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dear god this question is missing so much

you need to look at fundamentally how to play poker mate

the way your asking this shows you don't understand what your overall gameplan should be
 
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It is not as simple as asking how to play any two cards.

What stage of the tournament is this?
How large is your stack? (How many big blinds)
How have those around you been playing?

There's quite a lot to answer before deciding how to play this hand on the button.
 
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In any question about poker include as much information as possible. In addition to Emilio's suggestions, include villain playing styles, your table image, tourney buy in, villain's stack sizes, previous hand actions....any pertinent info that could affect your actions.

So, using your question to illustrate why it is important. Say you are the chip leader and have 10x the chips of others at the table; say there isn't anyone in the hand yet; do you want to go all in and risk the chance to get more chips than stealing the blinds?

Now if you're short stacked and the blinds have you covered by large amounts, you wouldn't have as much room to play post flop. Now stealing becomes more attractive.
 
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Sorry for lack of information. Just trying to learn how to play certain hands preflop early on in tournaments. Limited information about players at the table because it is on brovada. How would you play it? 3 X BB bet to enter?
 
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look how many blinds have your stack

In a tournament, what is the proper way to play KQ off suite on the button?

Do you raise it, limp it, call a small raise?

how many blinds is your stack composed? if the answer is less than 10 you should shove,

if it is between 10-25 you fold, and if it is over 20-25 you can open raising 3 bb
 
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If you are short stacked with under 15 BB and no one opened before you, just shove and be happy if you steal or someone calls with weaker thinking you are making a move from the button. If someone opens before you, beware of who they are and how they play and make the decision from there if you want to play the hand or not. Probably fold.

If you are a medium to large stack with 20 BB+ just open like normal, that is not a bad hand on the button.
 
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Lads, give him a break. Maybe he's new to the game! The reason of joining a poker forum like CC is to learn!
 
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In a tournament, what is the proper way to play KQ off suite on the button?

Do you raise it, limp it, call a small raise?

It is not as simple as asking how to play any two cards.

What stage of the tournament is this?
How large is your stack? (How many big blinds)
How have those around you been playing?

There's quite a lot to answer before deciding how to play this hand on the button.

I would have to agree with emilio. Most of all depends on tourney stage and stack sizes. In the early stages of a tournament i would just limp it, since the value of the early stages mostly lays post flop. In the later stages, when the blinds go up I would raise 2,5-3x bb and either hope to steal, or just to get one caller. It's not bad if either sb or bb calls you since you have position and KQ actually flops pretty great. If you meet to much resistance preflop fold it instantly unless you're very shortstacked (then you should've shoved it to begin with).
Great hand IMO but play it with caution
 
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this question is virtually impossible to answer. There are situations where I would snap fold, snap shove, call, raise, whatever.
What stage of the tournament is it?
Has the pot been opened?
What are the stack sizes of you and the SB and BB? If the pot was opened do you have that player covered?
Are the SB and BB tight or loose players? What is your hand history with them?
What is the blinds to stack ratio?
lets assume the pot is unopened
You will always be raising in the early stages of a tournament. You will be calling most light 4bets and folding to shoves unless you have a read.
In the later stages of a tournament you could easily open shove on the button with KQ. As a matter of fact, I would suggest that you do.
you can always reraise opponents with a hand like this, especially loose ones, but the issue is that your
1. often crushed
2. often flipping
3. almost never ahead
When fishy fish comes over the top with A2 and you get stuck, you'll wish you haden't commited with KQ.
basically there are no finite answers in poker. I think anyone who develops a system is a losing player. The only way to approach the game is consider every action as an individual entity. Consider all the factors, and make the best decision possible. Even if the math says one thing, other factors can sway you in a different direction.
 
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OP, it seems like you are really new to Poker and don't worry, those kind of questions are really normal and common when you're learning.

As the guys have said there is no possible way to answer your question since all the real valid information is missing.

Instead of concentrating what is the best play, my advice to you is just play whatever you feel like it is best to you. You should concentrate your efforts in playing as much as you can in order to get experience and see the many different possible results your actions have.

Along with experience you'll learn the most important concepts about poker such as table image (what kind of players are you against? Are they agressive, pre-flop aggro, passive, callstation, etc), stack sizes (measured in number of Big Blinds) , who is involved in the pot, what are the stack sizes and table image of the guys involved, etc.

Just keep studying and playing and those things will come up to you naturally, if you love the game you'll learn the concepts along with your experiences.

Good luck!
 
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The way to play it depends on the situation. For example, if it's folded to you, you should usually open for whatever your normal opening bet size is. There can be exceptions, such as shoving when you're short-stacked. Otoh. it's usually an easy fold if there's heavy action before your turn.
 
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Always Fold. But if you get the Bachelor Shove.
 
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In a tournament, what is the proper way to play KQ off suite on the button?

Do you raise it, limp it, call a small raise?
Unable to play poker against unknown opponents and without stats .In most situation I'd played the standard rase 3bb,but if loose passive and very aggrasive opponents only call...(It is only in a vacuum without stats )
 
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you have to tell us how many bb you had in that spot.not a limp for sure
 
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For the vast majority of the time, you're always playing KQo on the button to a min raise or raising yourself or even 3B preflop is going to be fine. I've very rarely folding KQo on the button unless there has been some serious action in front of us. One thing I can answer though is that I'm never limping KQo on the button unless there is a very good reason to do so.

Still though, your question is too difficult to the answer because there are so many variables missing, it really just depends on what stage the tournament is and our stack sizes vs other stack sizes and what our best play is going to be. If you give us an example of a point where you had KQo or post a hand history for example then I'm sure we can help give a better answer on what's probably going to be the best play.
 
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