Am I always behind here?

[ajohnson16]

$11, had been wading around and playing very tight after being like 8/500 and now had dropped to like 45/170 and hadn't played a lot of pots.

Villian had been opening a lot of pots and shipping a lot of money around the table, but had laid down a majority of hands he caught action back with.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t400 (9 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: 2+2 Forums)

Button (t2425)
SB (t5720)
BB (t8620)
UTG (t2434)
UTG+1 (t10526)
MP1 (t11629)
MP2 (t4385)
Hero (t9865)
CO (t8319)

Preflop: Hero is MP3 with J[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">UTG+1 raises to t1200</font>, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, Hero calls t1200, <font color="#666666">4 folds</font>.

Flop: (t2600) Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">UTG+1 bets t800</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t2550</font>, <font color="#CC3333">UTG+1 raises to t9301</font>, Hero....?

[ZJ123]

fold pre

you behind over 99% of the time (on flop)

but your flop play is fine has long as you instafold.

only think u beat is KsJs. I think.

classic weak lead with a monster, then shove after raise.

[Looshius]

Fold that preflop.

[omaha]

Agree, fold pf

Flop ok

[zoobird]

I agree with the other posters here.

If you want to exploit villain's preflop aggression, wait for a situation where you're in the blinds and resteal (push over his raise). I think stack sizes are ok for this, although I'm not particularly good at restealing so I'd like to hear what others think.

With bigger stacks I think you could play this as you did (and fold to the 3bet) but you're not deep enough right now.