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This is from a live game at Binion's Casino in Vegas. $1/$3 NL Hold-em. The games had broken up, and I agreed to play a few hands heads up (with a name I recognized, but didn't know was a 90s 2-time Stud bracelet winner). After a few back and forth hands and only a couple of flops, I hit Q/Q on the button/small blind. This follows:

Raise to $15 (was a rather standard for the table that night) in small blind.
Opponent calls.
Flop: 5/8/10
Opponent bets $15
Raise to $45
Opponent all-in
I call.

Once the money is in, he announces a set, and shows the pocket 5s. The turn and river pair, so his boat wins. Obviously, the over the top raise after the flop would have indicated a big hand, but I called due to the players previous play. They way he was playing the heads-up hands I expected he would not have called the $15 raise without two over cards. Also, any pair over 9s and he would have re-raised. Any rags he would have folded to that raise. Thus, the 10 high flop was just what I was looking for with the big pair. His play made it very unlikely that he had hit 2 pair on the flop, so I put him on A/10 or similar; top pair good kicker. Did I completely get a case of the dumb-ass here, or how should I have played differently?

you left out one key fact. How much was he all in for?? Without the amount of the all in its hard to give you an advice.

The pot was about 120 when he went all in. If he was all in(or you are all in for the 100-200 range it's probably just one of those hands that are hard to get away from. If the all in was greater than $200 or so I think you have to consider folding and finding a better spot.

Who was it out of curiousity? Barry Johnson or somebody like that.

Jason

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At the start of the hand, I had around $150 - $175. The pot at the flop was $34, then his $15, and my raise to $45 put it around $95. He had around $150 in chips and 2 $100 bills, so it was me all in for around $125 or so.

It was Marty Sigel, btw.

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Meh, I think you did ok. Your analysis of what you thought he had seems pretty spot on, and if he was playing this aggressive in earlier spots I can see why you think you're ahead. It does seem like the perfect flop for your queens.

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