My first post here

UTG was 40/18/1 over 70 hands.

Party Poker, $0.05/$0.10 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 8 Players
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Hero (MP2): $10
CO: $7.70
BTN: $9.80
SB: $12.69
BB: $9.17
UTG: $13.54
UTG+1: $1.85
MP1: $13.37

Pre-Flop: K Q dealt to Hero (MP2)
UTG calls $0.10, 2 folds, Hero raises to $0.50, 2 folds, SB calls $0.45, BB folds, UTG calls $0.40

Flop: ($1.60) 5 J Q (3 Players)
SB bets $0.29, UTG raises to $0.58, Hero raises to $2, SB folds, UTG raises to $13.04 and is All-In, Hero??

Two questions really,
1) Was the three bet on the flop wise? I didn't like the idea of calling with the SB still to act and the draw heavy board.
2) Do we call or fold to the all-in? I can't see many hand's we're beating, apart from maybe an aggressively played straight/flush draw.

Any comments appreciated.

1) it's fine, these guys are making gay bets, raise them everytime
2) BUT, now you have to fold. You beat Ax

meant diamonds obv

Fold is good. I don't think he's aggresive enough to bet on a draw and there really aren't any hands you beat.

I will sometimes raise KQ in middle position if people limp a lot and I haven't been raising a lot lakely. I don't think this is an authomatic raise though and it depends a lot on how the others play.
Against this single guy I think is fine.

Ok, thanks for your responses, I did indeed fold.


So if there are a few limpers you'll often just call with KQ in mp?

The bet is fine--you want to give them bad odds to chase--but once villain shoves, I'd fold. Rarely will people shove without a good hand. In all likelihood villain has a set of fives, and he figured you were aggressive enough with the 3-bet to call his all-in.

I rarely call. Generally if there are no aggresive, tricky oppoents behind I raise, otherwise I fold.
I'll only call if there are many loose limpers in front - if this is the case I will have callers for sure and they are harder to put on a hand + they most likely do not fold to cbets.

I think you played it fine. I might have just called the raise on the flop though and re-evaluate on the turn. Can't call the shove here though, there's not that many hands we're ahead of, and there's a lot of hands that we currently beat that could outdraw us.