Always think about the best 5-card hand you and your opponent can make. In hand 2, you have QQ77A and he has AA22Q, which is a better hand, two pair, aces and deuces beats two pair, queens and sevens.
Hm, that is really weird, yea I play NL Holdem on Bet365. I wrote the second hand incorrectly, it was:
Me: Q7, opponent A3
Board: QA722
But it still makes no sense for me.
Both of you have 2 pairs
You have QQ77 with the Ace kicker
he has AA22 with the Queen kicker
In these situations the higher 2 pairs wins since your strongest pair is QQ it loses to his stronger pair of AA, the second pair doesn't matter unless you both have the same stronger pair then it becomes the decider of who wins.
In the first hand, if you wrote the hand correctly, he had the better hand and should have won. But if the board does not end up 22 (in other words, if you remembered wrong and it was really something like QAA23) then you won with a full-house QQQAA, he just had 3 aces. As you saw with the 2nd hand, it is important to know the exact nature of the board, because sometimes small differences in the board make big differences in who wins. Since you wrote the 2nd one ending 32 when it really was 22, maybe the first one was 32 and you wrote 22. Makes all the difference.
Thanks, now I get it. I probably got the first hand wrong and there was a similar situation, I just didn't know you count all the on the table cards like that.
