I think there was a saying by Doyle Bunson, never lose your stack with a Queen in your hand (AQ, QQ).
Obviously QQ is a strong starting hand however if the situation screams beware, !strong hand from your reraiser!, you must get away from it. At that point you can pretty much put him on AA KK AK JJ, in which case you are probably a big dog or in a coin flip. why put your tournament on the line w those odds?
Laying KK preflop is almost impossible, however you must listen to your instincts. There are some hands where you dont have the chance to think your opponent has AA before the money goes in. But when a red flag arises, take note.
Playing small pots with KK AA is a great strategy, which will improve your tournament results
Obviously QQ is a strong starting hand however if the situation screams beware, !strong hand from your reraiser!, you must get away from it. At that point you can pretty much put him on AA KK AK JJ, in which case you are probably a big dog or in a coin flip. why put your tournament on the line w those odds?
Laying KK preflop is almost impossible, however you must listen to your instincts. There are some hands where you dont have the chance to think your opponent has AA before the money goes in. But when a red flag arises, take note.
Playing small pots with KK AA is a great strategy, which will improve your tournament results
With how people play online you'd be an idiot to fold KK preflop period. You can never assume the guy has the ONE better hand in all of poker to beat you. If you do that then you'll never win. You're playing way to tight if you do this.
QQ you can only fold rarely. Also it is not a flip if you have QQ and he has AK. If you think this is true you should not play poker anymore. Sorry I just had to let that be known. You are a favorite. If you think he has AK it's an insta-call. The goal of poker is to get your chips in with the best hand and hope math takes its course, not to play scared.
I've been on both ends of the KK vs AA preflop so as much as it sucks I have to keep reminding myself of the times some poor sap had the KK vs my AA or when someone had the JJ vs. my QQ.
Online seems to rape people more often than live (and in turn tilt the hell out of me), but I don't see it happening to one person more than others....they rape everyone equally.
never fold KK except in very specific tournament situations were doubling your chips is meaningless and your trying to limp into the money unless your at very high stakes there too many mediocre players to fold it and at top levels it would be a game theory mistake 95% of the time. As far as queens go unless your playing micro stakes fold if there is a raise and a huge reraise or 3 straight large raises
I dont know if I have ever folded KK preflop, I can lay down QQ though, in fact just did it the other day. I raised w QQ in middle, the guy next to me re raised and the guy guy on the button went all in (this was 2nd lvl of tournament) I was fairly sure I was beat and had no reason to be all in with QQ in the 2nd lvl so I tossed them. 1st guy that reraised me had the other QQ and button had AA. Good fold for me
Shit 5-6 times the bb in a cash game is nothing.
I have folded KK 1 time in my life playing cashgames. I was in mid position and guy 2 after me rasied it 3 times my bet and I folded and he made my day when he turned over A's. I said why did you show me. He was so happy to have a nice hand he said he wanted to show it.
LOL I was not mad. Hell I was happy to see I was correct.
QQ's are not that hard to get away from.
