I played a decent amount of cash game hands Friday night and planned to grind out a ton more on Saturday night. FTP had some major issues and crashed for several hours Saturday night, but that wasn't the reason that I couldn't play. The entire family (except me at the time) being sick with the flu is what kept me away from poker. My wife started getting sick around mid-day Saturday and my son started throwing up again around dinner time. I probably changed my 2 yr old son's clothes and bedspread about 5 times Sat night. It was to the point where I couldn't wash his sheets and clothes fast enough.
The only people in the house that weren't sick were me and my 6 yr old daughter. Shortly before she went to bed, she started complaining that her stomach was bothering her. She is somewhat of a drama queen, so there was about a 50/50 chance she was either getting the same sickness or wanted some attention. I loaded her up with a trash can on her bed before she went to sleep. About an 1 1/2 hour later, she started screaming. I went in her room to find that she had thrown up all over the place - her bed, her hair, her clothes, etc, etc. I quickly carried her into her bathroom to get her out of her clothes. The whole time she was screaming at the top of her lungs, "This is so gross!! Get it off of me!!! This is so disgusting!!" There was such a mess in her bathroom that I decided to take her into our bathroom for a shower. I put her on the bath mat in her room and she looked in the mirror and screamed, "I look horrible!!!" Gotta love the drama queens - worrying about how she looked while we were in the process of trying to get here cleaned up.
The cycle of each kid getting sick finally ended around 1-2 AM. I headed off to bed - still the only one in the house that wasn't sick. Finally, Sunday night it hit me hard. I don't think I have gotten that sick since I was a kid. It wasn't fun and still isn't. Hopefully, I'll be back up to speed in another day or so.
QQ in the SB
I wasn't sure what to do with QQ in this spot. The button seemed like a solid player. I hadn't seem him 3 bet with anything but premium hands. The original raiser didn't seem to get to out of line either.
1. Given that they both seemed to be playing straight forward, what is your play here? Raise? Flat Call? Fold?
2. What do you do if the originial raiser re-raises and the button flat calls?
3. What is your plan for a low card rainbow uncoordinated flop if you flat call pf? if you raise pf?
Full Tilt Poker Game #5928688441: Table St Ives (6 max) - $1/$2 - No Limit Hold'em - 15:36:24 ET - 2008/04/06
Seat 1: god_ofgamblers2 ($209.95)
Seat 2: CommanderData ($253.25)
Seat 3: cmitch ($269.40)
Seat 4: Bluffsalot83 ($200)
Seat 5: marlon1410 ($134.80)
Seat 6: youenjoymystack ($208.40)
cmitch posts the small blind of $1
Bluffsalot83 posts the big blind of $2
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to cmitch [Qh Qd]
marlon1410 calls $2
youenjoymystack raises to $9
god_ofgamblers2 folds
CommanderData has 15 seconds left to act
CommanderData raises to $32
cmitch has 15 seconds left to act
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I would 4 bet here even though I guess if one of them jams, you'd be priced in to call...
If you call and the original raiser reraises again and the button flat calls, I guess it depends on what the amount is but I'd be inclined to muck it since QQ can't be good there.
If you call and the original raiser calls and you see a 3 way flop with all low cards, obv, you'd check to see what the other two does because at that point if they both get their money in, you're obv behind. But if original bettor bets out, button folds, how do you not go broke here?
Hence, I think 4 bet would be the best option.
Alan aka RecessRampage
12:57 PM
I agree with Alan, although I'd have to think long and hard about calling a preflop jam from either of the previous two raisers. I'm not sure if I'd be priced in.
Gnome
4:08 PM
I don't want to play a potentially multiway pot out of position with QQ unless the stacks are considerably deeper than 100 BBs.
So I'd raise about 85% of the time and fold the other 15% of the time.
Given your observations that neither villain had done anything out of line and that the button was only 3-betting with premium hands, I'd lean more towards folding if AA, KK, and AK made up a large part of his range.
Shrike
1:25 AM