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[QUOTE="Joe, post: 7027358, member: 193663"]
Defending your BB holding QJo against a min seems fine/normal to me..

Going with top two on the flop is obviously ok too, although it is a fairly wet board.

You had 58% when the chips go in, so that's ok, opponent has no hand but big draws.

The turn gives villain four more outs so that isn't ideal but not something that anything can be done about, the cards fall as they fall.

Villain catches king on the river for the suck-out when you were up to 68% on the turn.

Appears to be a 'hand plays itself' type scenario to me, i.e. you didn't do anything wrong.

Perhaps some could argue that you could call rather than raise on the flop and pot control but that comes with it's own pitfalls too when against exactly the kind of hand that the villain has- i.e. giving them the chance to draw cheaply/free. Playing it slower might have resulted in losing less chips or perhaps you might've been able to take it from them on the turn when the heart doesn't fall (and only one card left to come) but considering the 9d gave villain OESD as well as the flush draw leads me to think not.

Pretty sure I would have played it pretty much exactly the same as you did, just a little unlucky that they catch on the river.

You defended fine, applied pressure after smashing to flop and called it down as a favourite so, not sure there's really anything else you could have done.

When the opponent is willing to risk their tournament life with air+draw (and only a touch over 15bb behind) then the hand is just going to play itself.

My opinion is you played it fine.

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