It is a little hard to give advise for small stakes. It is hard for me to understand an opening raise of 7BB. Is this fairly normal at these stakes? This type of raising makes the blinds irrelevant.

You have already answered your own question when you said, “Who raises that much preflop without an Ace unless it’s KK or QQ? And I have QQ.”

I used to find that there were situations like this when I would say to myself, “I know he has KK and I am beat.” But I would bet anyway because I felt committed. In a tournament there can come a time when you are committed, but in a cash game never think this way.

When I lay these down now, I consider it a win. I tell myself, “I just saved X$ which I will double up later when I have the best hand.”