POTD #56 Monte Carlo Monday I Fold QQ vs KK

But was it a good fold?

I didn’t make it to Triton Montenegro; like many of the readers of this newsletter, I was at home watching the streams and criticizing the play from the same chair I’m typing in right now. No one likes an armchair quarterback, so over the next couple of weeks, I am going to share punts where I made similar errors to the ones I saw in Montenegro. This project started with POTD #55 and continues today. A reminder: I am choosing to write about hands that have errors which are conceptually similar, but different enough, that I won’t be repeating myself too much, and hope we can all learn some new things along the way

The first of these hands will double as a Montenegro B-Side and a Monte Carlo Monday. I’m going to pair a big fold I made on the bubble of the 2024 Triton Monte Carlo Main Event with Kristen Foxen’s big fold with K4s (and Stephen Chidwick’s slightly less big fold with AQo) that I wrote about in POTD #42. In that hand, Kristen raised all of her chips except one SB and folded hoping to ladder once Chidwick called and Nacho Barbero raised all-in. In today’s hand, I am facing a pseudo all-in, a call and a jam; I have 9bbs and pocket queens and, somehow, am in the blender.

The Hand

Triton Poker Series Monte-Carlo 2024 $125K NLH MAIN EVENT

20k/40k/40k (SB/BB/BBA) 27th gets $199k

Curtis Knight (260k) makes it 255k UTG7, it folds to Adrian Mateos (520k) who calls on the button, Jesse Lonis (2.4M) goes all-in in the SB, I have 360k behind and Q♣️Q♥️ in the BB