lol obviously i dont fold . unless i know that he/she is a mega nit and most likely does have AA KK
the question is rather if it is better to re-reraise and maybe even shove all in OR just to call and look at the flop
QQ is the hardest hand to play in a cash game in my opinion
by the way in a real cash game i was deep and once had QQ and reraised a dude and he went all in (preflop) and i thought about it and then folded because it was obvious to me he has AA and he indeed had AA
If you called into a 3-bet pot is not a good idea to be raising flop, versus a tight player specially.
Yes, 99-QQ are hard to play postflop for many times we will see overcards. So we must look for spots where we have equity:
e.g:
Hero is in the MP holding QsQh and raises preflop. Tight Villain in BU 3-bets, Hero calls: flop/flops:
Ts9d7s = we can continue calling here, for we own backdoors. We can call larger bets here
AsKs2h = we are also calling down for the same reason, even 1/2 pot bet
2h3d9h = we call because villain can still has AK, AJ, etc. However, we expect small bets to see a turn
8dThKs = complicated flop, but we still have some equity: also waiting for small bet.
As2d3h = very hard to continue if villain bets 1/2 pot or more.
In all of these examples we are calling to see if the turn improves our hand. Many times we won’t catch a Queen, so we must have a plan, we are waiting for another spade to have more equity or a card that give us better
odds to a straight or both.
Our ability to call here relies not so much in the showdown of our hand, but on the fold equity of our opponent: we are calling to try to float him on the turn or on the river.
If our opponent is a tight regular (tight doesn’t mean the player holistically comprehends the game), and our hand improves on the turn we can think about raising, not to get paid by best hands, the contrary, to make the regular fold its AA and KK, for it will read our raise OTT as a move full of strength.
We can also continue calling and miss our straights and flushes OTR, so we are check-raising or jamming the river, doing the most strong possible move that most of times mean that we own the nuts: but be careful: many players at the micros won’t fold AA or KK postflop no matter how the board looks, super connected and monotone, or our sizing, they are simply going through it! Watch out and be smart.
As a rule of thumb, having QQ postflop I would continue calling to the river, if:
a) villain is betting small, giving us odds to proceed with our hand til the river
b) if any scary cards don’t show up on the board til the river, such as Kx or Ax: what is the point of calling small bets when it comes overcards OTT or OTR, and we are losing to any AT, AJ, A2???
