$3/$6 live game has been playing extremely passive.

V1 is new to the table and has laging it up in his first few orbits. I've played with him one other time, and he loves ATC, but has generally seemed to know what he's doing.

V2 has been playing mostly drawing hands, has been very passive, and has been hitting everything so he's seeing a lot of flops. I've only seen him raise KK and AA preflop, and have seen him turn trips 3 times on a rainbow board and not raise.

V3 is quite possibly most passive and nittiest old man I've ever seen. He only plays premiums and I've yet to see him lead or raise no matter what he had, position he was in, or players in the hand.

Hero is in BB with QQ

UTG +1, UTG +2 limp, V1, V2, V3, button and SB limp, I raise.
Calls to V1 who 3's. V2, V3, and button call, SB folds, hero 4's
UTG +1 folds, V1 caps, V2, V3, button, hero and UTG +2 call. 6 to the flop (31sb after drop).

Flop is JQ8
Hero bets, UTG +1 calls, V1 insta-raise, V2 3!, V3 call, button fold, Hero 4(?), UTG +1 folds, V1 caps, V2, V3, button, hero call. 4 handed to the turn (51sb).

Thoughts so far?




Thoughts on the turn?







Thoughts on the river? Anything I should've done differently on any street?

Easy flop jam. Even if someone shows you T9 here, you've plenty of equity to catch up w/ a pot this MW.

I'd jam flop. Probably slow down to v2s aggression on turn. Get to showdown in river. The way action played out, you only lose to 9-10.

River a full house.

welcome to the forum!

Honestly on the flop I was really only thinking about my hand and V1 since we were the preflop agressors and I made my set. Once V2 being so aggressive I was confused going to the turn, but once he raised again, and I stopped to think about it, the only hand that made sense to me for him to have was exactly 910. He'd been too passive on every other hand he was involved with to be doing that with 88. If he had been heads up with V1, I could see him doing it with 88 because of how V1 was, but not 4 handed. If 88 was out there it was with V3. For him to go along all the way I think he either had 88 or K10.

That's about how I felt, even though I was only getting 26-1 after the river raise and was 99% sure V2 flopped the straight I couldn't fold in a 50+ bet pot.

Thanks for the responses, I didn't want this to sound like some bad beat story. I'd been replaying the hand in my head, and thinking I'd play it exactly the same if it happened again, and that I'm being results oriented by questioning my decisions and focusing on the hand just because of the whipsaw I was stuck in and the size of the pot. If you take dynamic out of the hand, I don't think I'd have ever thought twice about it when the hand ended.

Thanks!