Did I kill my action here?

Should I just call here next time?

Seat 2: KILL*** (107.65 in chips)
Seat 3: SMD1*** (57.45 in chips)
Seat 4: remp*** (73.00 in chips)
Seat 5: Word*** (47.05 in chips)
Seat 6: TGAN*** (19.50 in chips)
Seat 7: dubo*** (40.45 in chips)
Seat 8: Hero (39.45 in chips)
Seat 9: Bobb*** (26.20 in chips)
Seat 10: Buen*** (71.70 in chips)
Buen***: posts small blind $0.25
KILL***: posts big blind $0.50
Dealt to Hero[ Kh Ks ]
SMD1***: folds
remp***: folds
Word***: folds
TGAN***: raises to $1.50
dubo***: folds
Hero: raises to $2.50
Bobb***: folds
Buen***: folds
KILL***: folds
TGAN***: folds
Hero: returns uncalled bet $1
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Hero: mucks
Hero wins $3.75

Raise more pretty much all the time. I make it like 4.50-5.

No you shouldn't just call here. Just because he folded this time doesn't mean you shouldn't have raised. Your hand is a premium hand, and you want to get money in, so you need to raise in order to do that.

-Calling=Pricing in big blind with suited connectors

-Once he's priced in and flops a straight to your over pair you proceed to go on monkey tilt and donk off your roll

-After you go bust you throw your mouse across the room and break your girlfriends fathers urn

-Shes sees it and you blame it on the cat

-She puts the disobedient cat to sleep

Unless you want innocent kitties to die, reraise

The fact that you posted this shows that you have a very results-oriented mindset in the first place. It's something to keep in mind when you consider your own approach to learning.

As played, part of the point of 3-betting here is to make it -EV for someone to call with a weaker hand by giving them bad implied odds. If you make a weiner raise then he (not to mention everyone else still left in the hand) have great implied odds because of the price and the fact that they know you have a stronger than usual hand and will stack off against them more often.

Is it possible this guy had a read on u cuz u normally min raise KK+? Dont min raise, don't be results oriented. By min raising this u gave him good odds to call u down with PP's and SC's and if he hit the flop he would easily stack you. simply because u min raised him preflop with KK.

make it atleast 3-4x from now on.

Thanks for the replies.

Dahn Bai, what hands do you typically re-raise with?

you RE-RAISE with those hands?
pokerstove KJ vs. my raising range
my raising range from MP:
any pp
AJ+
ATs+

lol, you flat QQ?

Pokerstove doesn't take into account villain's 3bet calling range. When you 3bet you are either A) Doing it for value willing to stack off preflop, or B) doing it as a bluff, intending to either fold to a 4b or 5b bluff yourself.

Most villains (especially at micros) don't 4b bluff. Therefore, a 4b from them means they have a rather tight range (KK+, AK). QQ doesn't do too well against that range, so if you 3bet and get 4b you will probably do good to fold. Therefore, you just turned QQ into a 3b bluff. And QQ is way too good of a hand to bluff with. You would have been better off 3bet bluffing with a hand that is not profitable to call with, such as weak suited aces.

DUC what I'm trying to say?

No, we didn't turn it into a 3b bluff because we're expecting him to flat our 3b because your regular villain at microstakes loves to call. Usually a bluff entails not being ahead when called.

No stacks, he doesn't really see what you are trying to say. I don't wanna type a lot on this subject right now so I'll keep it simple.

we are losing tonnes of post flop EV by three betting QQ preflop in a lot of situations in FR.

Not against an opponent who calls a 3-bet with the majority of his raising range.

we are focusing too much on preflop here.

Postflop is where the money is made and by not 3betting pre we can make more money than we can if we 3bet pre in given situation.

Obviously there are some situations where 3betting QQ pre is good/more +EV, whatever. But on the whole I think you can make more money postflop if you flat it.

But what do me and stacks know, right?