Quote Originally Posted by tugger
I guess when I do it it's with the intention of tightening his range, and sometimes also to represent more strength than I have, such as with the aces here. I suppose I was trying to tell him I had the queen, as well as asking him if he had one.
This is all backwards. Why tell him you have a Q when he could have JJ or QQ? Why are you trying to tighten his range. You want him to have the widest range possible that includes more hands you beat. Tightening his range will only include hands that beat you. Your doing things because you think you should and not for the reasons they will actually make happen. Think about his hand, not yours. If you are telling him you have a Q, do it with J9s or ATs, not when you are beating a ton of that wider range you want him to show up with. He will bet with a lot more hands here than he can call with. Try to work backwards and picture what raange of hands you want him to show up with here, and play the way that that would happen.