$2 NLHE 6-max: Flopping 2-pair, played OK?

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cosyglo

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No Limit Hold'em $0.01/$0.02
full tilt poker
6 players
Formatted by pokercopilot.com - Mac OS X hand history analysis and tracking

Stacks:
UTG - UTG ($1.77)
MP - MP ($2.14)
CO - Hero ($1.96)
BTN - BTN ($1.62)
SB - SB ($2.56)
BB - BB ($2.28)

Preflop: ($0.03, 6 players) Hero is CO with Qd Ac
2 folds, Hero raises to $0.06, 1 fold, SB calls $0.05, 1 fold

Flop: Qh Ah 3d ($0.14, 2 players - Hero: $1.90, SB: $2.50)
SB bets $0.09, Hero calls $0.09

Turn: 8d ($0.32, 2 players - Hero: $1.81, SB: $2.41)
SB bets $0.22, Hero calls $0.22

River: 4h ($0.76, 2 players - Hero: $1.59, SB: $2.19)
SB bets $0.50, Hero raises to $1.59 (all-in), SB calls $1.09

Total Pot: $3.94
Hero shows Qd Ac (two pair, Aces and Queens)
SB shows 6h 8h (a flush, Ace high)

SB wins $3.75


I looked back at this one, wasn't sure if I should have played it differently. He had played aggressively with any piece of the board up to this point, so I said I'd let him bet and just call it down to a river. The River card was a scare, but I hadn't put him on flush draw as I would have thought he'd have checked a street to try to get a free one. Also, I thought my shove after a flush card would likely knock him off lower flushes. Obviously not.

Any thoughts on anything else I could have done?

Thanks
 
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He donks into you, which means he either has a draw, air, or worse than second pair. I don't mind calling one street sometimes in these spots w/ 2 pair plus, but you should be shoving the turn all day.
 
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He had played aggressively with any piece of the board up to this point,
So you're saying he was aggressively betting when he flopped 2nd and 3rd pair, but then assuming he would passively check if he had flopped the flush draw. While this isn't impossible, how likely does it seem?

Also, I thought my shove after a flush card would likely knock him off lower flushes.
He's getting nearly 3:1, he beats everything except a higher flush, and you might have taken other lines if you were drawing to one. So this seems more like wishful thinking than sound reasoning.
 
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I wouldn't have re-raised on the river. At that point you are only going to get called by hands that are better than you. You aren't going to keep a lot of hands around that you actually beat.
 
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I think you can call a donk on the flop when you have a two-pair, but when the turn comes a blank I think you should be raising and putting as much money into the pot as you can. The only hand that is beating you is a set which would most likely 3-bet you on the turn if you would've raised. River, if he donk shoves which is very likely, I think folding is the right choice.

River is a bad card and you really shouldn't be stacking it as you played the hand passively and don't really know where you stand. Also, I doubt if u can be called by worse, yet anything better like sets and baby flushes aren't folding.
 
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