QQ BTN vs SB 3bet range

Hello,

I don't see any harm in just calling the 3bet going deep, because his 3bet range will be tighter and I don't think he'll push JJ or AK against a 4bet.

Assuming I don't want to play 130bb with QQ, I would only call on the flop and probably play cold call as well as dependent turn and reevaluate river.
On that flop raising you isolate yourself with set and KK+ which I doubt will fold over pair; He should though because in your range he has JTs, TTs and JJs, maybe 44s and FD+straight combinations.

Edit: We have backdoor equity and position

That's the thing: I think I changed strategy OTF, with my raise

I would most of the time 4bet to get it in with QQ in a BTN against SB dynamic.
Off course villian could have better, but I expect villian could stack of with AK and JJ as well, but 130bb effective is indeed a lot.
If you just call I don't see a point in raising. With raising flop you get only action of flush draws and better hands.

Cheers,
SDK1987

I appreciate a lot your insights. Ty.

Extra context to this hand:
I think I am playing for stack too often and think it is something I need to correct.
I am still playing a lot of NL2 to try to adapt my game to some leaks I think I have and this is one. I don't want to get in NL5 and simultaneously trying to adapt to a new stake, new opponents and playing in a dynamic I am trying to change.

So, when I came to this hand, I tried to play it "with new rules", but OTF i couldn't control myself and make a mess of this hand.
The outcome was good, often it would pass as a standard hand, but overall I was not happy with how I played it and decided to confirm with you it was wrong.

Thank you a lot. This has been very helpful.
Sorry if a lot of the hands I post here are straight forward, but I figure out simple hands are the first ones that need to be played correctly

4-betting with QQ pre vs a reg from any position results in pickup up dead money or getting 5-bet shove from KK or AA, rarely AK which is still a flip. At least that's what I'm getting from my stats. So I'm a big fan of calling most certainly against reasonable tight regs.

Originally posted by SDK1987
I would most of the time 4bet to get it in with QQ in a BTN against SB dynamic.
Off course villian could have better, but I expect villian could stack of with AK and JJ as well, but 130bb effective is indeed a lot.

But we never 4-bet QQ from any position vs a LJ or HJ right?

Originally posted by SDK1987
If you just call I don't see a point in raising. With raising flop you get only action of flush draws and better hands.

We have a premium hand on a wet board so my initial thought was also to raise both for value and protection here. But you are right, we put ourselves in a difficult position if a bad card comes.

Originally posted by EnriqueBunbury

Edit: We have backdoor equity

QQ?