$5 NLHE 6-max: AJo line check please

Full Tilt - $0.05 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

UTG: $7.00 (VPIP: 14.63, PFR: 4.88, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, hands: 44)
Hero (MP): $5.31
CO: $7.54 (VPIP: 22.64, PFR: 17.80, 3Bet Preflop: 7.63, Hands: 785)
BTN: $5.41 (VPIP: 25.58, PFR: 9.30, 3Bet Preflop: 6.67, Hands: 44)
SB: $2.17 (VPIP: 20.00, PFR: 17.89, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 96)
BB: $5.00 (VPIP: 25.00, PFR: 19.83, 3Bet Preflop: 3.13, Hands: 121)

SB posts SB $0.02, BB posts BB $0.05

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.07) Hero has A:spade: J:club:

fold, Hero raises to $0.15, fold, BTN calls $0.15, fold, fold

Flop: ($0.37, 2 players) A:diamond: A:heart: K:heart:
Hero bets $0.21, BTN raises to $0.42, Hero raises to $1.00, BTN calls $0.58
--> All info only based on 42 hands but I assume that he would have 3-Bet at least AK. So the only hand that beats me is AQ and another threat comes from 2 hearts drawing to a flush. Think my bet was a bit smallish here. I rereaised because I thought chances are very good that he has a lower A and likes those two A on the board a litle bit too much. Bad idea to reraise?

Turn: ($2.37, 2 players) 6:club:
Hero bets $1.15, BTN calls $1.15
--> Again: Bet too small? Wanted Villain to stay in the hand but obviously disregarded the flush draw. Also because I thought that he most likely wouldn't have called pre with Axh. Correct thought?

River: ($4.67, 2 players) 3:diamond:
Hero checks, BTN bets $1.25, Hero calls $1.25
--> Checking does not seem to be the smartest move here . Still had the possibility of Villain holding AQ on my mind...

Did I play that hand too passive? Thanks for your advice and oppinions

I think you could have bet a little harder on the turn, but think you played the river as well as you could. Well played hand, and a nice one at that.

The flop re-raise sizing looks solid because most of your flop re-raising hands are going to have a flush draw or worse ace annihilated in terms of equity. Sometimes your opponent will have a better ace (specifically AQ), but re-raising here protects you from being run over by (semi-)bluff raises on the flop and check-deciding too often on future streets when your opponent has the initiative and the ability to control the bet sizing.

On the turn, you want to do a good job of making a flush draw have a tough decision. AQ has you crushed and AT- is crushed by you, so they're not so much of a worry because those hands aren't folding either way. You probably aren't re-raising many full houses on the flop simply because you'd have the board absolutely crushed and likely do better to slow play, so your opponent's draw should be live quite often. For that reason, I'd advocate a slightly larger bet size to force a mistake from draws and also to get more value from worse Ax hands that may have value raised.

On the river, you should be value jamming or check-folding almost always because your flop re-raising hands are going to be so much stronger than your opponent's hands given pre-flop. You get a lot more value by betting the river than you do by check-calling the river. However, there are cases, very possibly this one, where your opponent may be able to be exploited with a smaller turn bet and a river check because he will misread your hand as a bluff OR just ignore hand reading altogether thinking something like "Oh, good odds to try to hit a flush. Oh, he checked to me, I should bluff since I have no pair" and that's that. If the same opponent also makes the mistake of trying to value bet ace-ten (what worse hand do you have that's calling a bet from ace-ten??), then you have a pretty clear small bet on the turn and check-call the river with these stack sizes.

Thank you!

Rhinelander said:

Turn: ($2.37, 2 players) 6♣
Hero bets $1.15, BTN calls $1.15
--> Again: Bet too small? Wanted Villain to stay in the hand but obviously disregarded the flush draw. Also because I thought that he most likely wouldn't have called pre with Axh. Correct thought?

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I actually wanted to write Qxh instead of Axh.