Party 50NL (from memory). 6-max Equal stacks of 50

Hero is on the button with QQ. 2 limpers ahead. Hero raises to $2 (x4bb) to go. SB calls, previous limper goes all in for another $4 (short stack). Hero pauses and calls and unfortunately (?) Villain in SB calls

Flop is J 9 9 rainbow. Pot is ~$13

Vilain checks, Hero BTP, Villain calls quickly.

Turn is a brick... Villain checks, Hero??? [Pot 39]

Well my read is something like QT, or a J or smaller pair. If he had a nine I think you would be looking at a raise from most players once you bet the pot. He might be slowplaying a lock with J9 but that's pretty unlikely. Again with AA or KK I would have expected a re-raise pre-flop.

With any nine I would expect a lead from him here.

Of course if you have a particular read on his play (for example is he is so passive that he wouldn't bet the AA or KK overpair into you) then this would all go out the window.. but generally a check-call isn't as scary as a check raise in $50 NL and can be made by players with top pair weakish kicker or a draw easily - I guess I would fire again (maybe 3/4 pot) and see what happens. I would drop it to a re-raise here though.

Hadn't thought of reraising pf to isolate. That sounds like the best plan.

Of couse, I'd have to put about 20% of my stack in play to do that properly, and its easy to get pot committed on just about any flop.

In the end, I fired away on the turn as was called (Yuck). I believe I should have checked or pushed (for the very aggressive move).

We both had QQ and split the small stacks all-in. Lucky me.

Tim