PS 50NL AQ against shorty

I know I played this hand horrible, preflop and by checking the flop. I checked the flop, cause villain continuation bets 100% of the times.

villain is 33/14/4, me 22/18/2.9.


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saw flop|<font color="#C00000">saw showdown</font>

SB ($77.15)
<font color="#C00000">Hero ($97.20)</font>
<font color="#C00000">UTG ($21.90)</font>
MP ($27.25)
CO ($20.95)
Button ($16.55)

Preflop: Hero is BB with Q/images/graemlins/club.gif, A/images/graemlins/heart.gif.
<font color="#CC3333">UTG raises to $2</font>, MP calls $2, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, Button calls $2, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, Hero calls $1.50.

Flop: ($8.25) A/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, 8/images/graemlins/heart.gif, 3/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="#0000FF">(4 players)</font>
Hero checks, <font color="#CC3333">UTG bets $4</font>, MP folds, Button folds, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to $95.2</font>, UTG calls $15.90 (All-In).

Turn: ($123.35) 9/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>

River: ($123.35) T/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>

Final Pot: $123.35

[barryc83]

Once you get to the flop I think its pretty standard. I like the c/r too bc these idiot shortstackers will bet the flop with anything.

I'm often confused about what to do pf in these situations, is pushing pf terrible with the dead money and the fact that everyones short and prolly sucks? IMO folding pf is terrible.

My thinking was that the cold callers didn`t have better Aces than me, cause they probably would have reraised PF. So I figured I could CR villain and get HU maybe with Dead money in. Doesn`t looks like he has a better ace to me after his weak flop bet with two hearts on board.

(me so noob) Isn`t this what you call relative position ?

[TJgniL]

You do have relative position post flop because you're directly on the PF raiser's right. I think this hand looks good and play it the same. You'll get his cbet close to 100% of the time and a short stacker's likely to call your shove w/ weaker A's. I like this better than a PF shove because that gives villain a chance to get away from his weaker holdings.

[PoliticalRefugee]

Why is folding here so terrible?

The AQ is not suited and OOP means it's going to be impossible to take down a pot we miss. On that flop I probably c/r all in and hope he calls with AJ or AT

I also think that folding preflop is terrible, but raising is probably better than just calling. But I figured, that if I hit my ace it will most likely be good and I can see the flop cheap.

[mrw8419]

I like it if you 3 bet preflop you're committed to calling any of the SS pushes.

[Peter Harris]

yeah, i think calling is fine. If you like variance, plus getting some dead money in, pushing PF is fine also.

I like the flop c/r, as you get to see the others fold out before doing so. nh.

exactly mrw8419. villain had AKo btw ;(

thanks for all the replies