1/3 live.

Hero ($500) has been playing somewhat tight and has lost about every hand he has played.

V1 UTG ($700)splashy loose player. opening on the lighter side but his leak is being a passive and on the stationy side.

V2 HJ ($500) Haven’t seen him play too many hands. I did raise to $30 and he called his straddle with Q3.

Everyone has about $300-900 and are wide and passive except the straddle who seems like a competent rec.

People have generally been raising to $20 and the flop goes 4-7 ways. I don’t know what happens if I were to open to say $40. It’s very unlikely that if I limp no one raises.

OTTH:

Button straddles.

Hero is dealt QQ in the SB and is first to act.

Open or limp?

Hero decides to limp.

Bb limps.

V1 UTG opens to $20. 6 people call and it’s back to hero. There is now $152 in the pot. Hero raises to ___

$140.

Literally 500.

Open to 20 yourself.

$120-$150 sounds good.

A “standard” squueze here should be $220+, but i think a more profitable line is to make it $160 or more and let people spaz/cawl. They might get sticky with 88-JJ, AQ/KQs/AJs. I.e make more mistakes. Or even do something ******ed like back shove 88. When we shove, they have an easy decision to just call or fold.

I would shove any flop, even ones with an Ace unless it’s 3-way+ otf

Open yourself to $25

If you're going to limp reraise, you might as well jam it in there now. At least one person is going to look you up, methinks.

You could also get conventional and pot it to $186. So around $180-$190. The problem with that is it could go multi-way, and since you chose the limp reraise route already, you're committed now and you have to stop-and-go and jam any flop (except perhaps one with a Q).

I suppose it depends on how gambly you're feeling about going for the home run. The bird in the hand play is jamming now, the two in the bush play is a stop and go.

Good luck!

If you are playing in this bad a game than limping seems good.

Probably jamming now

I was mostly debating between 150/200/jam. My thought process was similar to Minotorr so I ended up going $200 but I thought jamming had a lot of merit. As played I go $200, UTG calls. Flop comes down T high, I jam and he folds. I think going too much smaller gives him too good a price to call. If we go $150 then he needs 30% equity to continue so I wouldn’t want to go smaller than that, although, he admittedly will have a tough time actually realizing that equity unless he’s just going to stack off on a ton of flops.

Standard shove, it looks bluffier, plus any other amount will start the waterfall effect of callers and QQ will be difficult to play multi ways OOP with a low stack to pot.Expect to get called wide in action games like this.

QQ isnt that hard to play when SPR is 1. Unless it’s AKx we are always going broke