Quote Originally Posted by Outlaw
Remember to define your hand more preflop.. then villains can guess less postflop.
ducy I fyp?

If you make a play that "defines your range" as you like to put it, then any competent villain should be able to play mistake free against you.

edit: I'm not yet arguing that a 4b isn't the right play, I'm just staying that to do it so you can "define your range" is the wrong logic to be using. You don't want villain to know your range. There will be times when 4betting is correct here, but you first need to determine in this instance what you are wanting to accomplish with a 4b. That is if you are doing it for value or as a bluff. If it's for value go ahead and do it and get allin preflop. If it is as a bluff, you shouldn't do this with QQ because it is such a good hand that you shouldn't "waste" it. Instead you should do it with worse hands.

Against an unknown I don't like a 4b preflop, and would simply call the 3b as OP did. Reasoning I don't like a 4b is if for instance this villain is 3betting light (which we don't know since he is unknown), then he will likely fold all hands we beat to a 4b, and only hands that beat us will stay in facing the 4b. Therefore, while we have defined our range, as you like to put it, we have also folded out worse hands, and kept in better, which will put in a shitty spot on any flop without a Q. Not to mention, that unless you intend to stack off preflop with QQ, then a 4b isn't ideal as it has so much value in just calling that we should stray from 4b bluffing with QQ (that is folding to a 5b from villain).

But by just calling his 3b we aren't narrowing his range like we would with a 4b; however, the range we narrow to with a 4b is a range we fair badly against. On the flop I think this is a check/call against an unknown. Against a massive nit that we don't think is 3betting less than absolute value, I'm okay with a call preflop and a c/f on the flop as we had set mining odds. But against an unknown I can't imagine folding an overpair to one bet on the flop here.