Hello,

Yesterday I played the Sunday mini million on Pokerstars. In this particular situation there only 160 players left and I had a good stack size (33th or something). First price was $25k.

Moments before the break I had QQ early position. I opened it 2.1x. Then this guy calls with a big stack UTG+3. He is kind of reg with aprox. $26k profit.

The main question is: did I played it right?

I think the bet sizing on the flop was fine. I'm not sure about the turn though. Because of the 10 of clubs (3 clubs on deck) I checked/ called a 45% pot bet.
Alltough I played it fine, I would like to know your opinions. I was a little bid shocked when I saw his hand.

Thanks in advance.

Nh ul.

betting turn on that drawy board and I'd probably bet 2/3 pot

I´ll bet a tad bigger otf and b/f turn.
Villain seems to just be clicking buttons, he´s flop peel is so so bad.

My bet was 42% of the pot on the flop. You would go 52/55%? Or more, like 62%? Off course in this particular situation it would have worked. But why bet bigger? To get value of A7s, 6's, 8s, and 10s?

I like check/call OTT, what we want do when we get raise ?

Check flop

The peel by the villain is pretty disgusting. Maybe he thought he could get you off the hand if a club hits the turn?

I'd bet around 55-60% OTF as hands you want value from like 88, A7s won't fold to this sizing and it also makes him pay more if he has a draw.

Bet the turn. It's already a nice pot if you take it down here and if you get raised its an easy fold, as you are likely drawing dead.

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Why would you ever check flop? Not saying it's wrong or anything, just interested to hear the reasons why

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Naaaaaah

What do you think villain peels pre?
Dont think we can cbet range.

Well all I know about this villain is what the OP said, so it's hard to say. Surely the standard play is to c bet when readless.

What range are you giving him to make you think this is a flop check?


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That doesnt mean we need to check our whole range. We have a huge range advantage, we can get value from overpairs, 7x, AJ-AK, flush draws etc (even stupid floats like this one) and letting villain realize his equity for free especially with Ax is bad imo. I think this is a pretty clear bet, but u know better naf

Villains range should be tight so it seems optimistic to go for 3 streets.
Although QQ needs some protection it will be hard to play some runouts and realize equity in a bloated pot.

Understood. Thanks for sharing.

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So I got curious....
If we open ~11% our strat goes from cbettting range (vs wide 7% flatting range) to checking range (vs tight range w/ traps)

and vs just tight 3% capped range we`re close to be 50/50 wrt equity and our cbet strat looks like this:



where we check 20-30% of our KK-QQ (w/ slight preference to non-club combos)

Why are we calling river bet ? Which bluffs he has ?