FINAL TABLE QQ

Four players left: 8,5BB, 24BB, 64BB, me 21BB. Big stack raises to 3,5BB. With pocket queens is it just flat call, reraise or all-in? What would your paly be in this situation?

I do not like they bet so big but I'd shove. To small stack for non-shoving reraise here and flatting is not the option.

joango123456789 said:

Four players left: 8,5BB, 24BB, 64BB, me 21BB. Big stack raises to 3,5BB. With pocket queens is it just flat call, reraise or all-in? What would your paly be in this situation?

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Calling is non optional in my opinion. I believe the best play is re-raising huge, basically saying that I won't fold no matter the flop. The second option is going all in preflop

I raised to 12,5. Big stack went all-in with AK and hit both

joango123456789 said:

I raised to 12,5. Big stack went all-in with AK and hit both

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You always make the wrong decision; if you have the queens, you''ll be rivered by an ace. If you have AK, you'll get a five rag board.

Call... Strong hands won't be thrown off, especially since a big raise...

It didn’t work out for you, but you made the right play.

joango123456789 said:

Four players left: 8,5BB, 24BB, 64BB, me 21BB. Big stack raises to 3,5BB. With pocket queens is it just flat call, reraise or all-in? What would your paly be in this situation?

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I generally don’t like shoving at all.
Because when we go all-in with the nuts, we get a lot of folds and lose the opportunity to fully realize the potential of our strong hand.
It’s not profitable for us to see folds when we have AA, KK, or QQ.
It’s more profitable to play them postflop, apply pressure, and extract as many chips as possible.

There is also one more big advantage.
When you go all-in with QQ against a player’s range like AK, AQs, AJs, KQs, KJs, KK, QQ, JJ, and AA,
you lose the possibility to fold later on a bad board and avoid losing everything.

For example, you play your Q❤️Q♣️ and the flop comes A♦️K♦️T♦️ — all cards are monotone.
Frankly speaking, this board completely devalues your hand
(you only have a gutshot on a flush-and-straight board).
And even if a J or a Q comes on the next streets, those cards can only make the situation worse
giving you a set or a straight while giving your opponent a flush.

At the final table, a shove is almost always a coin flip.
There are a lot of shoves with strong suited connectors and pocket pairs.
And having the freedom to fold your hand is a beautiful feature for a strong player.

When we go all-in, we lose the ability to choose how to play the hand further.
We simply look at the % v % and nervously wait for the RNG to be kind to us.

hard to play and hard to fold maybe a call.

All in

joango123456789 said:

Four players left: 8,5BB, 24BB, 64BB, me 21BB. Big stack raises to 3,5BB. With pocket queens is it just flat call, reraise or all-in? What would your paly be in this situation?

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Flat call!
Because if there’s an Ace or King on the board and you have an ill feeling of playing further, we might eventually fold at times! Hence, every hand survived opens a door to a new possibility of staying a alive!

Shove all-in. If he already has better or hits his random Ax hand good for him unlucky for you. You're too short stacked for anything else and if you're ever gonna come back and win now you gotta win flips if it's a flip. Best result would be he shows JJ or lower pair, worst result he shows AA/KK and meh result he shows Ax.

Either way you're less than double the smallest stack and soon will be blinded out with trash hands. This is your best shot with QQ you very likely won't be seeing better hand before being blinded out.

I'll also add one more thing. If you're going to be scared of monsters under the bed in this spot when there's only 2 hands that have you beat......poker probably isn't for you. Any pro player worth dam will tell you pretty much the same thing.

Cheers!!!