$5 NLHE Full Ring: $ : AJo bad beat

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Hey guys. This is a hand I played where I sucked out a person by hitting a miracle card on the turn. I usually play tight and am often the person who gets bad beated so this was the first time where I really bad beated someone else. Although Im glad I won the hand, I know that I got really lucky in this case and im most cases, I would have lost my money. Thus, I was hoping for some advice on how I could improve/get away from hands like this in the future.

Rush poker .05 NL Full Ring
UTG $4.02
EP+2 $5.15
Hero $4.66
MP+2 $8.19
MP+1 $3.94
CO $3.53
BTN $10.11
SB $5.84
BB $2.89

Hero is dealt Js Ac

EP+2 opens with raise 15c. Hero calls. MP+2 calls. Everyone else folds
Flop comes down Jh As 6h
EP+2 checks. Hero raises 20c. MP+2 folds. EP+2 reraises 85c. Hero 4 bets $2.12. EP shoves all in. Hero calls.

turn comes Ad
river comes 6d

Hero shows Js Ac for full house AAAJJ
EP+2 shows JJ for full house JJJAA

hero takes pot.

I know that when EP+2 showed JJ that I was screwed and hoped an ace would come to save me which it did. However, I know that this was a bad play and any other day when my luck would have been as usual, I would have lost my buy-in. So I was wondering what advice I could get to avoid things like this in the future.
 
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In terms of thinking, I thought I hit a monster with top two pair. I expected pocket Aces to raise more than 15c, did not consider JJ (a bad call on my part) and felt that if someone was on a draw, I was not giving them the pot odds to call (since I bet half the pot initially). I guess I also thought JJ was unlikely since I had one J and the other J was on the board. I also did not consider 66 (actually I lost a previous hand QQ to 66 when a 6 came on the flop. I need to get better at considering sets). I also bet more with my high pocket pairs than 15c so I might have misattributed my tendencies onto my opponent. At the time, I honestly thought I had the best hand on the flop. Should I have reraised his raise preflop to get more info? Should I have called one of his raises instead of reraising him even though I thought I had the best hand?
 
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A few random thoughts :

Always play with at least a 100bb stack to give you a chance at bigger pots and some wiggle room.

Use the CC hand converter, very easy to use and gives some of the good lazy players (I'm one of the two you'll never guess which ...) on here an easier time helping you

Did you have a specific read on this player (or stats from a HUD)?

You were right, two pair there is quite a good hand, don't be afraid to bet more on the flop.
 
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I dont play rush, but I think this is a fold pre. Other than that looks fine.
 
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I dont play rush, but I think this is a fold pre. Other than that looks fine.

Thanks for the replies. I was wondering why AJo should be a prefold. I know that rush plays even tighter than normal but I think AJ is top ten hand (under AA, KK, AK, QQ, JJ, AQ, TT). Maybe above 99. Am I overvaluing this hand.
 
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AJo middle position on Rush is questionable. Facing an EP raise makes it easier. You are most likely beat, it's a fold. Not an easy hand to play postflop. As played I'm fine getting it in with top 2 pair.
 
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I would've folded AJo pre-flop on middle position with early position raising 3x the blind and players behind you yet to act. 1 of reasons is you'll be behind EP's range. 2, even if you hit your Jack or Ace, you can still be dominated.

Other than that, on the flop, standard in my eyes. I'm stacking off with top two pairs also. It's very rare someone has a set against your top two pairs.
 
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ive never heard of a bad beat with AJ....AJ is a terrible terribad hand.

yes your over valueing your hand.

you say AJ>99??? nope 22>AJ...so 99>>>>>>>>>>>>>AJ
 
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ive never heard of a bad beat with AJ....AJ is a terrible terribad hand.

yes your over valueing your hand.

you say AJ>99??? nope 22>AJ...so 99>>>>>>>>>>>>>AJ

To better explain this, OP just gotta use Pokerstove and see for himself why 99>AJ.

OP, get yourself a Pokerstove, put in 99 against random hands and then see the equity. Then, put in AJ against random hands and see the equity. Now compare. You'll notice that 99 vs random hand = 72%, whereas AJ vs random hand = 63%

However, I disagree with 22>AJ. For 22, you're coin-flipping at best, dominated many ways. 22, u got 12 pocket pairs that dominates you, which is combination of 72. For AJ, only thing that dominates AJ is JJ+, which is 24 combination, and AQ, AK, which are 32 combinations, totaling 56. AJ>22 but of course, they're both horrible hands unless 22 hits a set on the flop of course.
 
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