I was playing a STT at my local casino and have a question about my last hand and how I played it. I haven't played a ton of live poker but have been studying it lately when I can. I'm dealt QQ UTG +1 and we are 7 handed. Blinds are 25-50 with starting stacks of 5k. I have 4.25k and I believe I was the effective stack. Folds to me and I raise to 125. SB calls and BB 3-bets to 500. I call and so does the SB. Pot = 1,750. Flop comes T-J-7 with two clubs. SB checks, BB bets 600 and I raise to 2k. SB jams, BB folds and I make an unhappy call. SB flips over 89 suited for the straight and it bricks.

I have been beating myself up for not 4-betting preflop. I may be giving up on poker because of the frustration and lack of skill that it feels I have, even though I have been working really hard on it for some time now. I can't tell if this is a cooler or if it was just played very poorly. What do you think about the hand? Go easy on me but I would like to hear opinions please.

flop raise is bad, you will rarely get action from worst hands (unless you are playing vs maniacs) and you wont fold out better hands

also, you effectively raised his 600 bet to 3,750 cause you are never folding after making it 2k, and every one knows it...so even if you had a raising range on this flop you should size smaller...but QQ shouldn't be a part of any raising range in that spot