Background on villain, pretty new to table. Tried to sit down with $500 but the game is capped at $200max so he started off with a hissey fit about that. Raised utg with 94s and flopped a full house on his first hand, been playing almost every hand and has only shown a decent hand once (QQ) which he spewed with on a A,K,10 rainbow board.

Hero picks up QQ otb sitting with $85, villain limps from utg+1 has me well covered, folded around to hero who raises to$8, villain reraises to $20. Hero shoves, villain snap calls and turns over KJ. Hits a K on the turn.

I realize that against most players a shove with QQ wouldn't be the best decision, but my read on this player was that he was a gambler and was reraiseing pretty light. And advice on how I should have played this hand differently? Thanks.

Rebuy up to $200. As played it's obviously fine.

It is vital that you re-load back up to 100bb($200) because you gain much more potential value by stacking an opponent such as the V in this hand. Also, with a deeper chip stack you are able to take more +EV lines that would actually be slightly unprofitable by being a short stack. With your stack you really are unable to set mine, open raise with suited connectors and double barrel. As played, with ~40bb here I am shoving this all day since you are way ahead of V's range here. He also called with a worse hand, which is what you wanted right?

You played this hand perfectly on every level that I can think of.

The hand it self is pretty text book.
Nothing different that you can do.

If you have the financial means to do so, I would encourage you to play a big deeper, esp with a guy like this at your table. They are the best way to make money if you can play tight and wait against them.

Sorry that you lost.

Thanks for the replies guys, I don't normally sit short but had lost a few hands prior to this one. Just wasn't my day I guess.

You gotta lose this recreational player mentality.

Rec players only think in terms of winning and losing.
Winning = played good.
Losing = played bad.

That is not good poker.

Winning +EV players only care about making the correct +EV decision (I started a contest on this concept http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/32...ntest-1471369/ in the BQ forum open to all)

You got all the money into the pot as a 72% favorite. So how is this wrong? Just because this was the 28% of the time you lost?

You played it optimally and just hit the wrong side of the results curve. That's poker. Reload and do it again and again and again and in the longterm, you will have a nice happy giraffe

GL

Yeah, you played it perfect. If you don't want to shove preflop with QQ against a super spewy V who will call you with much worse, then don't play short-stacked. Buy in for max.

This. Pretty much /thread