QQ vs ace on river

Joined: 18.07.2025

18.07.2025, 22:37 0

Can I post link? I need to share easy hand replayer...
(in short: LJ open, CO call, I 3bet QQ on btn, lj call, co fold. Flop T53 rainbow I bet 8.5 into 35.5. Brick turn, check check. Ace river, villain bets 11 into 44)

Live tourney, not played with villain before

Think preflop is standard

Flop I chose to bet small - I feel if he has like AJ then he may continue with bad equity and obviously want calls from at/jts. Do I ever check here? I guess to protect Ax? Is sizing okay?

Turn I do feel I have him crushed and I feel if I bet most of his range just folds now and I'm mostly just worried about an ace. I guess he maybe has KJs but yeah I don't think many kings in his range so I figure if I check I give him chance to bluff river

River when he bets I am visbibly frustrated which I feel is a mistake because I think I removed any option to raise which could be on the cards? But when I think about it I'm not sure - I think I can raise river and rep AK/AQ with line played but I don't think this makes sense when I already beat most his bluffs. So on that... I think it's hard for him to have many bluffs here, maybe just tx and weak pocket pairs turning the ace into a bluff? Ultimately I feel like he has an ace most the time so I guess it's just a question of whether I think I win 20% of the time which I'm not really sure on. I didn't have any info on opponent at this point

Any thoughts much appreciated!

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VorpalF2F

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19.07.2025, 03:40 0

Originally posted by DefiledMind
Can I post link? I need to share easy hand replayer...

Hi DefiledMind,
Welcome to PokerStrategy.com :welcome:
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I think that the problem in your hand comes in not betting the river strongly — but I don't play live hardly ever, and tournaments not so much either.

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ghaleon

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22.07.2025, 16:17 0

If you want to slowplay some overpair on T53r it should be AA. That is for reason that it needs least protection. JJ on other hand has three possible overcards you dont want to see. I guess small sizing is preferred on this super dry flop. Turn we should always bet and reasonably big. Often I would use sizing that would make similar size river shove. So lets say we have 80 behind on turn with pot of 50. We could go e.g. 25 and if villain call we then have 55 behind with pot of 100.

River villain would probably check Tx. So it could be Ax+ for value or some sort of KJs or small pocket as bluff.

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DefiledMind

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22.07.2025, 19:38 0

Thanks both for sharing