Hi

Any thoughts would be appreciated, cheers:

$100 FO, 90 runners, 24 left, £2.5k 1st place. 1.8M chips in play, Ive got 190 000 (final table ave, tourney pays 9)

Blinds 2400/1200

UTG bets 5000 (170 000 stack)

Folds to me with QQ in CO (I call as button has 13 000 so figure he will jam)

Button jams

UTG calls

I now reevaluate as wary of getting shove called as he may have AK+ slow playing and call. I try and play it tricky and call also.

45 000 in pot

Flop 10 4 6

UTG checks

I bet 25 000

UTG calls

turn 6 with spade flush on board

I bet 50 000

UTG calls

river J

UTG shoves for last 90 000

He'd just joined table and I don't know the player. Winning hand gives me approx 20% of chips in play with 23 left.

In retrospect QQ only beating AK and missed flush draws, maybe A10 and A4. He shoved with last 90 000 so bluff a definite possibility I thought although ave chips is 75 000 at that point.

I tank and call and he shows A6 to leave me with 20 000.



Bet on flop seems ok, turn bet maybe bloated the pot needlessly.

I think I just got caught up being massive in chips at that point in a relatively pretty big situation for me.

Whats the best play? Is this ever a call? I'm most annoyed about not raising his call pre to 40 or 50 000, I think shoving would've been pretty amateur.

you are correct to be annoyed here... there was no need to 'play it tricky' as you say...
there is already 31 K in pot after button jams and original raiser calls, which is more than enough to try and grab it right there...

i dont know what the correct sizing would be though, as we dont know anything about the villian since he is so new to the table...

Usually I would shove here or prob raise to 50k if as deep as I was, was feeling pretty unstoppable tbh the way I'd been running and playing, thought I might be able to stack him.

Do you think it was a complete donk call? Are QQ ever good there?

cheers

Raising after it gets back to you to like 40-45k is a great option. If you are always flatting pre, your goal should be to get all the money in on a board like this. You can also check the turn for deception and call a river bet/value bet safely.

I'm repopping to 35K pre, which should set up a flop c-bet, turn jam on safe boards.

Yeah, once he flats, he's going to have a lot of middling holdings. I like hitch 35k bet shove turn. Yes, that would include this turn runout.

Thanks for feedback

you shouldn't slowplay QQ so hard its not like you have the nuts or anything, raise pre dude

gotta raise it pre, really bad preflop play