Raise or fold preflop - just know if you play the hand one way or another you have to go with it when you hit top pair or better. Point is you have 22bb to start the hand and cannot afford to simply call/raise in and fold when you flop top pair or better.
I would raise in to about 1100 - 1300, fold to any and all 3bets, and I would check flop once I hit top pair with a crappy kicker. If anyone bets at the pot after the check, I am jamming my top pair and going with my hand as said before.
How do we avoid this spot? Just fold preflop...we allowed this hand to play out the way it did. You butchered the betting and when you bet into that many opponents on the flop generally only better is calling you, so I would check/call turn and check /fold river - if you do not decide to go with you hand - which I still think is a poor strategy. We played a rag Ax with 22bb, if we dont go with it when we hit an Ace, then what do we need to hit to go with it?? And if we are worried about other Ax or kickers, then why we did play this hand to begin with??
I hope some of this makes sense lol.
Conclusion - raise or fold - if we do play the hand and see a flop, when we hit top pair or better, we need to go with our hand and get it all in. We are simply too short to fold when we flop strong - remember we put ourselves in that situation so you have to be ok with your results.
This doesn't mean you made the wrong choice - sometimes you are going to lose/get called even when it was the correct play. You must be ok with that and move on. Good luck!!
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