I normally enter a room with $2, 100 bbs, and reaload up to $2 if I drop below $1.50. Is it better for me to just enter with $5?

This is exactly the kind of spot that got me open shoving pre flop with aces. I seem to play them badly post flop. I think I convinced myself that the four pots aces win is less than the one pot it loses, but of course that's not true. Maybe over a period of a week it is, but not over a period of three months.

I'm going to take on board this raising for information thing, because it's something I do quite a lot, especially with top pair or overpair on the flop. If this is something you're all horrified at, then it must be with good reason. I guess when I do it it's with the intention of tightening his range, and sometimes also to represent more strength than I have, such as with the aces here. I suppose I was trying to tell him I had the queen, as well as asking him if he had one.

And the call option... I just thought I was losing, and therefore chasing two outs, which is not something I want to pay to do past the flop. I need to remember I have showdown value as it is with aces, and that I'm catching bluffs and weaker pairs over a billion hands, giving my hand more equity than just 10%, which is what I thought I had when I folded.

So call him down, and if I'm beat I'm beat, right? Don't raise for info, and raise more if I must raise. And buy in for more?