Pocket Queens on an Ace-High Flop: What Do You Do Here?

DECISION POINT: In a $1/$3 no-limit hold'em cash game, a UTG player raises and the cutoff calls. It folds to you in the small blind with . You reraise, and the UTG player calls. The cutoff folds. The flop comes . Action is on you...

What do you do here?

PRO ANSWER: In a $1/$3 cash game we reraise preflop from the small blind with pocket queens against an early position raiser and a late position caller. Only the early position player calls and from out of position we see an ace-high flop.

At this point we must decide whether or not to make a continuation bet and if so, what size we should make it.

In general, we want to maintain a balanced range whenever we take a specific action. So if we…