Newbie against a manic

[Monkey_Child]

Villian in this hand likes huge bluffs, big pre-flop bets and raising twice the pot with air type of moves. I missed a really obvious check raise on the flop, didn't I? Sorry if the hand's not all that interesting, but I'm new and doing a few sanity checks.

Full Tilt Poker
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $0.25/$0.50
9 players
Converter (http://www.neildewhurst.com/hand-converter)

Stack sizes:
UTG: $7.35
Hero: $49.25
MP1: $50
MP2: $29.70
MP3: $59.70
CO: $37.30
Button: $41
SB: $20.70
BB: $65.70

Pre-flop: (9 players) Hero is UTG+1 with :kc :kh
UTG folds, Hero raises to $2, 2 folds, CO calls, Button raises to $5.5, 2 folds, Hero raises to $21.25, CO folds, Button calls.

Flop: :5s :ah :ac ($45.25, 3 players)
Hero is all-in $30.
Uncalled bets: $30 returned to Hero.



River: : ($75.25, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: $75.25)


Results:
Final pot: $75.25

[Xanta]

Your flop line here really should be check/call the all in.

His range consists of a bunch of high pocket pairs and AK mabye AQ. By pushing the flop, you make him fold all of the pocket pairs, since you MUST have an ace after all that preflop raising.

If you check, he'll take a stab at the pot with a lot of the pocket pairs that you beat. If he happens to have the AK, well, that sucks, but he will push with QQ, JJ, TT and the like a lot on this flop as well.