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Message: [QUOTE="300HPGOD, post: 6705726, member: 305911"] I understand that some players that are exponentially better than me rarely if ever raise UTG+1 when UTG has opened but I really think you should be raising here with QQ. The only caveat would be if you feel like you are decently certain that someone behind you will squeeze even just a little light behind and then you can go get massive value with QQ. Most of the time that will be unlikely with an UTG open yet this is a freeroll so if you have a HUD this is where you should be looking to see how many high 3 bet% are behind you and then potentially just call to induce. Imo 65 BBs against loose players (assuming that cause its a freeroll) is not too big to get QQ in. Don't misinterpret that though, I am ready to 4 bet against a squeezer and then if it gets in it gets in but a little different against the UTG villain especially if I have nothing on them. Getting back to why I like raising though, if we just call here then I think a decent chunk of the time, especially freerolls, we will get 2-3 calls behind us and now we would be playing 4 or 5 way and be out of position to some. I like raising and isolating here even though they are UTG. QQ is pretty strong unless you are playing on ACR lol On the flop I am checking here with my entire range that I got this point with and honestly checking a huge % of the time even when heads up. There are differences in AAx boards where AAQ two hearts is a drastically different board than AA9 rainbow or AA7 rainbow. So here, with no draws and a rainbow board, if I had an ace I would feel like I would really monopolize the board and would not bet. If I had Ax and villain had KK or QQ then checking flop to them might empower them to lead turn or if they dont then I bet turn. Either way with AAx out there and if you are going against KK or QQ (in this hypothetical scenario) then you are probably only getting one street anyway. So with that said I check here on these flops so that my checking range is protected too and the times I have 1010 or something like KQ I can bet turn when checked to and get better hands to fold. So here, there is no reason to bet flop imo and you say to a lot of villain types (especially at your sizing since if you are going to bet it should be very small) that you dont have an ace since the bet is large enough for fold equity and who would be trying to get others to fold the times we do have Ax. So villain could actually bluff here although it would rarely ever happen in this spot at the freeroll level so when we bet and get raised it is an easy fold. [/QUOTE]

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