(NL25) Playing trip Aces OOP vs a raiser.

[Wolfram]

Villain is 46/11/2. The preflop coldcall is probably pretty donkish, I'm just wondering about the rest of the hand.

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SB ($12.75)
Hero ($29.70)
UTG ($60.30)
Button ($24.90)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 9/images/graemlins/heart.gif, A/images/graemlins/heart.gif.
<font color="#CC3333">UTG raises to $0.75</font>, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, Hero calls $0.50.

Flop: ($1.60) J/images/graemlins/club.gif, A/images/graemlins/spade.gif, A/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Hero checks, UTG checks.

Turn: ($1.60) 6/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets $1.25</font>, UTG calls $1.25.

River: ($4.10) 2/images/graemlins/spade.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets $2</font>, <font color="#CC3333">UTG raises to $7</font>, Hero calls $5.

Final Pot: $18.10

[dedmoney]

why would you check the flop? Your kicker isn't too good that you want people trying to get free cards. Rest of the hand is okay I guess. I would have hammered the flop for a buck and get an idea of where you stood from there. I'm not a huge fan of slowplaying trips.

[Wolfram]

There are only 2 free cards that I need to worry about. I'm just checking to the preflop aggressor to see what he's going to do, and probably gonna check/raise him.

[Panthro]

na, this is fine. Betting the flop gives you the same result, and bloats the pot when you have kicker problems. Make a crying call on the river and hope he has like A7.