Need help with this hand

First let me say that I misplayed this, but I would like some input on how to approach hands like these. I don't have the exact readout from the site but here is the best I can do. The players at the table had been playing tight, and I had been successfully stealing blinds when play allowed. I was in the Big blind with A7o. UTG calls everyone else folds and I raise to 5x BB. He calls. Flop 66J, I put him on a low pp and fire a bullet and bet 1/2 pot. He "hesitates" and calls. Turn 6. Now I check to him. He checks. River J. Board 66J6J I check, He waits for awhile and goes AI. Now the pot has about 1/3 of my chips in it and calling would reduce me to about 1/10 my stack. Losing and I am almost out of the SnG. Giving him 1/3 of my stack by folding when a split is possible doesn't sound great either. So decision time....see in White below





I call and he shows Pocket Qs taking nearly all my chips. I had nothing and folding seems obvious to me now but he limped with Qs and that just threw me off. More realistically I should have put him on AJ or QJs, JTs, to call 5x BB and the continuation. I should have licked my wounds and layed it down and the more I talk about it the more apparent it seems ahh well. I wonder if a bet on the River would have made him worried about quads--probably not

quads would not have scared him. Occassionally UTG you will find players that limp big hands in hopes of raise, so that they can reraise. I am surprised that he didn't reraise you, however, he probably put u on an Ace and wanted to be able to get away from the hand if an Ace hit. When someone calls a big raise after limping, it's virtually always a PP, trying to take you down with a set....

In the future please mention stack size/blind size - those are really important.
You did not mention the buy in - which is important to put a general feel on the quality of the players.

For me personally - I do not like UTG limpers, a lot of times people with high PP limp UTG hoping for a raise and reraise.

I would check preflop and check the flop, and folded to any bet.

On the river you are in a sticky situation
If the pot is 1/3 of your stack and it will be split you risk your entire stack to win 1/6th of it - I would fold