NL5 AK facing paired flop 3 way after preflop goes wrong

[ParanoidA]

Poker Stars - No Limit Hold'em Cash Game - $0.01/$0.02 Blinds - 5 Players - (LegoPoker Hand History Converter)

SB: $8.75
BB: $5.93
UTG: $14.02
Hero (CO): $6.15
BTN: $3.18

Preflop: Hero is dealt A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] K[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (5 Players)
UTG calls $0.02, <font color="red">Hero raises to $0.10</font>, <font color="red">BTN raises to $0.26</font>, 2 folds, UTG calls $0.24, <font color="red">Hero raises to $1.04</font>, BTN calls $0.78, UTG calls $0.78

Flop: ($3.15) J[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 5[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] 5[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] (3 Players)
UTG checks, <font color="red">Hero?</font>


Only recently joined table, but:

UTG: been playing pretty tight, lot of folding preflop and no memorable postflop action.

BTN: Very loose preflop, twice gone all in with Ax.


Preflop I expected UTG to fold my big raise and was hoping to induce a shove from BTN. Given that neither of those two things happened, whats my play here?

[Capitan23]

I would probably C-bet here 2$

[vixticator]

4-bet needs to be larger, UTG looks like dead money/idiot. Button will call shoves with Ax, 22+, KQ, etc., is this correct? Push on the 4-bet because he has less than $3 behind. As played, eh, check and see what he does. I would call if he pushes and UTG folds.

[hitch1978]

I would C/bet just over 1/2 pot here, although I prefer getting my chips in PF.

[DaycareInferno]

ugh. tough spot. button only has like 2/3 pot left over, so he's probably calling you with any pp. if you check, he probably pushes with anything, at which point you can see what utg does. i can't see cbetting being best here against that shortstack, because he's just going to call you with anything.