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Message: [QUOTE="dbitel, post: 476711, member: 15503"] SB's reraise preflop is way too small. Got to make it like $40 at least. I don't know if he was thinking on this level or if he just thought KQ was a good hand, but this is a pretty good spot for a squeeze play. He should have a pretty tight image. You'll prob be folding a lot of your range (I presume you're gonna have a reasonably wide opening range), and its likely that LP has a weak hand as a bully will normally reraise his big hands preflop. On the flop, checking is probably slightly better than betting out. In reraised pots, you cant worry too too much about the FD, esp as the K and Q of that suit is on the flop. And given that bully will bet a lot of hands, and that you will rarely have a worse hand that you are willing to get all in with on the flop, checking looks good. After your bet and LP's all in, he's in a VERY tricky spot. He knows that you know he is a tight player, and he knows you probably put him on a AK/TT+ kind of range preflop. Therefore, for you to be betting the flop, you're repping a pretty good hand. I don't think he can worry about LP too much however, as he's a bully and off his game. A fold is tough to make here, but is probably the right move here. All he beats is AK and a bluff, and depending on how good you are, you shld rly never be showing up with AK here, and it would be a pretty sick spot for you to bluff. on the turn/river, he only has about 80 left....he really need to go all in vs LP, who isnt folding and can have quite a few worse hands. OK, onto your play. I think this is the easiest to analyse. Your preflop raise is good, and I dont think you can really 4bet this hand, due to being rr by a tight player, so your call of the 3bet is good too. On the flop, you could try to be tricky and check the flop, induce the bully to bet and maybe trap some of SB's dead money is there, but that might be a bit too much FPS for this spot/flop, as theres a few turn cards that could stop others putting money in. So I think your bet is good and obv the call of the AI is standard. Theres no way you're folding midset there. The only mistake you made in the hand IMO, is when you say that LP has a pair of kings ace kicker, when he clearly has 2 pair, kings over 8s :p!!! Lastly, the LP. Firstly, he should really be reraising AK the 1st time it gets to him. He has a reputation as a bully and a big hand, he should be using that to his advantage by value raising. When it gets back to him, I don't like his call. Sure, if he knows that you have QQ and SB has KQ, its an easy call/push. but he has to put both of you on pretty big hands, so as nitty as it seems, I think when it gets back to him, folding is best (NOTE: a lot of this analysis is based on SB being very tight. Now I don't know how tight "very tight" is for a live game. But online, I'd probably fold AK to a "very tight" player's 1st raise, preflop, let alone a reraise.) on the flop, after SB checks and you go AI, LP should be folding (which is why he shld fold preflop), but its a fold i'd never expect him to make. he has to really put you on a range of AK/AA/KK/QQ/88 and maybe KQ and combo draws SOME times (I also expect you will 4et AA/KK a lot). But he's in bad shape vs that range. After he puts you AI on the flop, his turn and river checks are suprisingly good [/QUOTE]

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