Updated on 21 Feb 26 by
Peter Fryers
Poker Expert

Would you fold QQ preflop here?

It's another hand of the week vote and once again we want to know what you would do here.

This week’s hand comes from Hungarian community member bogec84 who, in his NLHE PokerStars game was gifted & preflop and instantly raises. The move sees two players fold and two more, CO and SB, raise on each other. Does Hero stay in the fight?

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Given SB’s range, could be this a hero fold? Might it be better to call in order to keep CO in the loop and increase our equity? But what if SB, who is a regular, knows his image at the table and understands that CO is a fish so decided to 4-bet light? Would we have a good equity against his range in that case?

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What’s your move?

Last week’s Results

Over 80% of our users thought that the hand had to be folded and the SpinLegends team explained the following; Preflop is ok defending J7o. The flop is just a little drawy because there are some gutshots and OESD: it's a flop that oppo can 3-barrel easily because, with a top pair (for example K9), we'll check-raise often instead of calling and A9 isn't very likely in our range (while we are 3bet A9).

The river gives him another overcard without closing any project, which makes it even easier on the 3rd barrel. The question is; why oppo overbets? He could do it with monster hands (all the trips and top two pairs) but given the type of bet, he would be targeting our lower two pairs, a very reduced amount of combos given that the best ones are out of our range.

The most profitable size for him, if he has a strong hand, would be a mid-small sized bet. That's why when he chooses a big bet we can put him often on a 3-barrel bluff making us fold almost all the pairs that he would have valuebet with a top pair or better.

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