Misplayed aces ?!?

[Marias132]

$0.12/$0.25 Blinds No Limit Hold'em
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 8
Seat 10: sg ( $23.51 )
Seat 1: rc7721 ( $18.52 )
Seat 2: hero ( $71.42 )
Seat 3: xb ( $33.29 )
Seat 4: bj ( $134.58 )
Seat 6: al96 ( $23.52 )
Seat 7: ta ( $19.52 )
Seat 9: fr23 ( $11.13 )
xb posts small blind [$0.12].
bj posts big blind [$0.25].
rc7721 posts dead blind [$0.12].
rc7721 posts big blind [$0.25].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to hero [ As Ah ]
al96 folds.
ta calls [$0.25].
fr23 folds.
sg folds.
hero raises [$2].
xb folds.
bj calls [$1.75].
ta calls [$1.75].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 2c, 8h, 3c ]
bj checks.
ta checks.
hero bets [$3].
bj folds.
ta calls [$3].
** Dealing Turn ** [ Kh ]
ta checks.
hero bets [$6].
ta calls [$6].
** Dealing River ** [ 6c ]
ta bets [$8.52].
hero calls [$8.52].
** Summary **
ta shows [ 4d 5d ].
hero mucks.
ta collected [$39.48].

Had no reads whatsoever on this guy. He was a jerk, I realized later. But, Should I have pushed turn?

[Fnord]

Move up your continuation bet size to 3/4ish pot. That gives you more room to play with pot sizes on the turn.

[ChrisBCritter]

Yea, gotta pot that flop. He made a somewhat bad PF call, but the rest he pretty much had pot-odds to call them... as well as implied odds...

$3 into $9 on the flop with OESD.. Marginally Good.
$6 into $18 on the turn.. Same odds as flop.
River played itself...

[Fnord]

I counted the flop pot size to be around $6.

[Pingviini]

And in general you shouldnt pot the flop but I guess that at these lower stakes they will pay you off with draws. Still I would give my opponents a change to make mistakes and go with fnordy's 3/4 of the pot, 4-5 bucks should do the trick here. his check-calling smells like a draw so I will put the same 2/3-3/4 pot bet on turn too. Turn is usually where you want to control the pot size. I call that river bet too, you were given too good odds to call even though I would put him on a flush here..that might be a weak king as well trying to control the size of the pot.

[Fnord]

And in general you shouldnt pot the flop but I guess that at these lower stakes they will pay you off with draws.

I bet that flop for balance because I'm betting so often when I don't have it.

[ChrisBCritter]

I counted the flop pot size to be around $6.

When the Villian calls the $3, the pot IS $9...

[Marias132]

Yeah... I was betting half pot on flop and turn. Good advice, thanks.

Curious, what is OESD ?

[bdawg56kg]

Curious, what is OESD ?

Open ended straight draw.

For this hand I would bet $5 on the flop and push the turn.