KQ in 1/2 NL

It's a lot easier to play the hand by 3betting pre (depending on stacks, reads and other factors), but that would depend on the range of the original raiser (if he's opening up a standard range, but if he's very tight I would just fold). I don't like calling pre with KQo, only KQs (although my preference would still be to 3bet).

As played, I would be trying to get to SD reasonably in case either of of them has AK/KK/AA/99.

Not a great place to be in at all but getting better than 4/1, in position, closing the action, with TPGK you can peel one, but that's intending to get out quicksticks if things get spicy on the turn. 3bet preflop (or fold...it's a 7x open after all, you can just fold KQo to this size) to avoid this.

Without knowing stacks, positions or suits, all 3 options are viable preflop, and raising and calling are both viable OTF.

Call flop and see.

Preflop is a fold tho, as others suggested if this is a normal loose passive table. It is a dominated hand against typical EP opening range that includes AQ and AK but usually not worse K or Q hands.

Table seemed loose with huge raises preflop. I had been running super well. I had about 400 in front of me. It was nearing the end of my session. I only bought in for 100 and was running really well. I folded here(the river was a queen and I'd have won at least a 500 dollar pot if I got to river. That said i picked up another 100 of profit holding KK later. Ended up plus 400 for an hr and 45 min session so I was happy. This hand just bothered me

Yeah, if I quadrupled my buy in and I was about to leave I woulda folded there too or maybe even preflop since I wouldn't wanna 3bet if I was about to leave and risk a big portion of my profits, and you shouldn't be results oriented it means absolutely nothing, especially if you made a good fold.

Against most of 1-2 Mohegan Sun population that are open limping a lot, a raise to 15 is V bad for KQo and I'd just fold.
Note that CO vs. UTG open KQo is a pure fold for robots with robot ranges and sizings (smaller).

You say the table was loose with huge raises ... if that applies to this guy it changes things a lot. Would mostly be just calling though, and even then the flop overcall is dicey ... both players have to bad/agro. as there are no draws other than T9 type stuff trying to hit two pair.

Which guy had 94? The raiser or the caller?

I might 3B pre, but might not. As played, I would probably flat call flop with KQ, and see what happens on the turn.

Games like this can be really high variance, playing normal ranges straight up against opponents who are apparently and literally playing any two cards, and can show up with any 2P.

Caller had 94

You keep mentioning the Q hit the river ... do you not like your flop fold because you would have had the best hand on the river?
Would you feel better if it was QQ vs. 94, or JTs vs. 94 and the rest of the money went in on the river?

KQ is really only playable if you're playing against an idiot who is raising too many hands and will have K7, K9, etc. The problem with KQ here is if you call, your whole stack is likely going in and people have plenty of AK here.

And this is why I folded

but u called