PLO Aces Dilemma

[lupusolus]

Hello heads up forum,

I'm an intermittent poster / lurker who has seen the light and discovered heads up sit-n-gos. I've been playing 10+0.5 and 11+0.5 on fulltilt, mostly nl holdem and pot limit omaha.

This hand happened in a turbo. Villain is very loose aggro, has been pushing me around, and will get it in ridiculously light (think holdem hand values applied to omaha). If I checked the flop he'd pot it for sure, leaving me in a tough spot.
I still think I botched the hand, but you be the judge.

Seat 1: Hero (1,620)
Seat 2: Villain (1,380)
Villain posts the small blind of 15
Hero posts the big blind of 30
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [Ac 6h Ad Tc]
Villain raises to 90
Hero raises to 270
Villain calls 180
*** FLOP *** [Td 9h 4h]
Hero has 15 seconds left to act
Hero bets 540
Villain raises to 1,110, and is all in
Hero calls 570

The problem was that even if I half pot it on the flop he'd pot it up with a huge range that I'm pretty sure I'm ahead of.
Should I have given him more rope on the flop? Or maybe I should have flat called preflop, turning into a postflop nut peddler (not the best idea due to blind structure I think)?

[ChicagoRy]

If you're ahead of his flop potting range, then why wouldn't you just half pot and shove over his pot raise?

Basically what you said is you think you're +EV against a certain action, but didn't take that action.

Now if you're looking for the most EV line, I can't help you there, but at least you're identifying a line that is profitable, and that is a start.

[lupusolus]

Thanks, that makes sense. Thinking back on it, at the time I was afraid that he'd flat call with a draw, although he hadn't really shown me that line at all, so that probably made little sense.

Another thing that's always in the back of my mind is that half potting seems like I'm trapping and I get more calls rather than shoves with hands that I'm a small favorite over, which I usually hate because it leaves me in no man's land on the turn. But does that kind of thinking make sense in this situation? I always hate it when I end up in no man's land and end up making a laydown, crippling my chip count with the blinds increasing, so I tend to gamble more in big pots. It's probably something I need to change.

[lupusolus]

I forgot to post hand results, here they are.

Villain shows [7c 8s 5d 8c]
Hero shows [Ac 6h Ad Tc]
*** TURN *** [Td 9h 4h] [Jc]
*** RIVER *** [Td 9h 4h Jc] [7h]
Villain shows a straight, Jack high
Hero shows a pair of Aces
Villain wins the pot (2,760) with a straight, Jack high
The blinds are now 20/40
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2,760 | Rake 0
Board: [Td 9h 4h Jc 7h]
Seat 1: Hero (big blind) showed [Ac 6h Ad Tc] and lost with a pair of Aces
Seat 2: Villain (small blind) showed [7c 8s 5d 8c] and won (2,760) with a straight, Jack high

My jaw dropped when I saw that he shoved there with little more than a naked open ended straight draw.