Another Hand for you to decide on?

[chala]

Lost out the other night quite big on a hand. At first I thought I was unlucky, but the more I think about it, I think I probably played it badly. So I thought I'd open it up to the PL and see what you guys think. Right, first things first, it was a $0.25/0.50 CASH game on bet365 with 10 players at the table. I get dealt 66 in seat 2 or 3. Now maybe I should have thrown this straight away, but I thought I'd raise it, knowing that a half decent raise is usually good enough to go heads up with someone. I will say now that if I had, had 2 callers I probably would have folded, 3 or more I definately would have folded. So I raised $2, it was folded round to the middle where I was reraised $5, everyone else folded and I called for $3. Now I probably should have folded after the reraise, but as it was gonna be a heads up game, I thought I'd just see the flop, maybe bet a rag flop, otherwise fold. The Flop came: QJ6 He bets $10, I put him on either a pair of Q's or J's with a decent Kicker, or AK. So I reraise him $20, he goes all in and I call. He turns over KK, turn's a 5, river's a K. Now I'm not crying over getting beat, as he had a better starting hand than me and probably deserved to win it, but I thought I had every right to go with it once I hit the three 6's. How would you have played it? Folded it straight away, fold after the prefolp reraise? Fold after the flop all in? Or do you think I was right to play the hand? Comments good or bad (but not to bad:tongue2 ) appreciated. :ok

[aliensyndm]

Re: Another Hand for you to decide on? OK I'll run the risk of a bunch cnuts telling me to shut up and give you my views. Firstly I wouldn't get carried away raising hands like 66 too often. It can be good once in a while for deceptive purposes, but unless you hit a 6, you're gonna be beaten most of the time, especially if there is more than 1 person in. You wanna get in cheap with these hands and hit your six, if Q , K or A flops etc you'll get action off that and get paid. OK I don't know anything about the people you were playing against, so some assumptions will have to be made but anyway... The re-raise to 5 is an indication of a pretty strong hand. Straight away I would be thinking AA KK or QQ. Possibly AK but it's much more like to be one of the other three I would have said. OK you get your 6, it's gonna be pretty hard to get off this hand now, especially heads up. OK he bets $10. Now think bank to what I said he may have before. $10 is a pot sized bet here, if he had AA or KK it's the kind of bet he would make. Now QQ is a possible hand he could have, going from his preflop raise, BUT, the advantage of postion shows here......you would perhaps expect him if he has flopped QQQ to check that, rather than bet it. This would lead me to believe he does not have QQ, the hand I would be most concerned about. Is the person a loose player ? Would he re-raise you pre-flop with AK or AQ ? If so the AQ would also bet 10, an AK may bet 10 trying to bluff acting like he had KK or AA as well. A loose player may also have re-raised with JJ, but for the same reasons you would expect a check rather than a pot sized bet. In short the person is likely to play AQ, KK, AA , possibly even AJ the same way. He's gonna play QQ or JJ differently. Notice how though that having better position you get a good indication of which he has for free, ie bet = AA or KK, check = QQ (or JJ) Bearing that in mind indeed I would have raised his inital bet, as you did and would have shoved my whole stack in on that as well. Now you said he deserved to win it, no he didn't. All the money on the hand went in when you were ahead. Only a little money went in when you were behind. He caught a king, it's a piggy, but it's the way it goes.