When Two Pair Isn’t Enough! (Q7 vs AA) - What Could I Have Done?

[wazir]

Hey CardsChat Fam,

Just had a rough one in a free-entry tourney (10K Prizepool). I was dealt Q7 of hearts and flopped a pair of 7s, which later turned into two pair (Queens and Sevens) by the river.

But my opponent?
He slow played Pocket Aces (AA) and nailed Trips (Three of a Kind Aces) on the flop itself!

Board: 7♣ 3♣ A♦ Q♥ 4♥
Me: Q♥ 7♥ → Two Pair
Villain: A♥ A♣ → Three of a Kind

I felt pretty strong on the turn with top two pair and committed heavily. But the trap was set and I walked right into it.
Lost a huge 106BB pot and busted out right near the bubble (Rank: 155/1313, Paid: 154 – so yeah... extra painful).
My Thoughts:

Should I have read the strength better post-flop?

Was calling or checking turn/river a better line?

Or was it just a cooler and nothing much I could do
Drop your thoughts, friends!
Have you ever been two-paired to death by a sneaky set?

Let’s discuss how to avoid such spots or minimize the damage.

 

[Goggelheimer]

Too less information, to give any hints.
Blinds, position, stack sizes, betting sequence Pre-flop missing.
So no discussion.

 

[wazir]

Too less information, to give any hints.
Blinds, position, stack sizes, betting sequence Pre-flop missing.
So no discussion.

Yes, you're right buddy. I actually forgot to mention the pre-flop action, positions, and other key details like blinds and stacks.
My bad! Without that, it’s tough to analyze properly.
Next time I’ll make sure to include full hand history so we all can discuss it better. Appreciate your input!

 

[TheKAAHK]

Unless you got a free look into the big blind, you shouldn't have been in that pot with Q7, soooted or not.

 

[NKGB13]

Hey CardsChat Fam,

Just had a rough one in a free-entry tourney (10K Prizepool). I was dealt Q7 of hearts and flopped a pair of 7s, which later turned into two pair (Queens and Sevens) by the river.

But my opponent?
He slow played Pocket Aces (AA) and nailed Trips (Three of a Kind Aces) on the flop itself!

Board: 7♣ 3♣ A♦ Q♥ 4♥
Me: Q♥ 7♥ → Two Pair
Villain: A♥ A♣ → Three of a Kind

I felt pretty strong on the turn with top two pair and committed heavily. But the trap was set and I walked right into it.
Lost a huge 106BB pot and busted out right near the bubble (Rank: 155/1313, Paid: 154 – so yeah... extra painful).
My Thoughts:

Should I have read the strength better post-flop?

Was calling or checking turn/river a better line?

Or was it just a cooler and nothing much I could do
Drop your thoughts, friends!
Have you ever been two-paired to death by a sneaky set?

Let’s discuss how to avoid such spots or minimize the damage.

it's difficult to say if you played right or not w/o having the stage of tournament, your position, stacks and action history until the river. However, if you are too aggressive historically, he has no reason to scare you away.

 

[dannystanks]

Yea those sneaky sets lol. On the stone bubble too wow. Yea you will have to really analyze what you did right and what you did wrong here. One general thing, and I don’t know the details of what happened, but on the bubble with that many blinds, maybe just find the fold there. Going out on the bubble after all that work is painful no matter what you have, Q7 or AA. It’s still no money and just a sad story.

 

[eetenor]

Hey CardsChat Fam,

Just had a rough one in a free-entry tourney (10K Prizepool). I was dealt Q7 of hearts and flopped a pair of 7s, which later turned into two pair (Queens and Sevens) by the river.

But my opponent?
He slow played Pocket Aces (AA) and nailed Trips (Three of a Kind Aces) on the flop itself!

Board: 7♣ 3♣ A♦ Q♥ 4♥
Me: Q♥ 7♥ → Two Pair
Villain: A♥ A♣ → Three of a Kind

I felt pretty strong on the turn with top two pair and committed heavily. But the trap was set and I walked right into it.
Lost a huge 106BB pot and busted out right near the bubble (Rank: 155/1313, Paid: 154 – so yeah... extra painful).
My Thoughts:

Should I have read the strength better post-flop?

Was calling or checking turn/river a better line?

Or was it just a cooler and nothing much I could do
Drop your thoughts, friends!
Have you ever been two-paired to death by a sneaky set?

Let’s discuss how to avoid such spots or minimize the damage.

Others have mentioned the missing data-- beyond that a simple hand strength comparison exercise should help you here.
You have Q7 but the best hand on this river is 56 then 52 AA QQ 77 44 33 AQ A7 A4 A3 then Q7 that is a lot of better hands that would want to play for stacks
then we think would our V stack off with AK AJ AT Q3 Q4 ? when we could have all the above hands.

 

[hilary antonik filho]

I would like to analyze, just what I can say, be patient, I could wait a little, running away does not mean shame

 

[fundiver199]

As you already know, you really need to provide the complete hand history for proper analysis. You had two pair, but you did not have top pair, so there were a lot of better two pair possibilities out there. Which mean, that with stacks of around 50BB (assuming 106BB was the total pot size), this is not really a hand, that want to play for stacks on the bubble. So most likely you overplayed your hand and lost more, than you should.