Should I bet the river?

[gnurulle]

Bit of background: Enemy is somewhat tricky. He chats a lot and has gotten a rather big stack. I haven't seen him before though.

Starting a new hand
Texas Holdem NL $1/$2 - 2006-09-22 18:15:39 Server
(6 max)
Seat 1: BB( $192.50 )
Seat 3: HERO( $262 )
Seat 5: UTG+1( $220.85 )
Seat 6: CO( $107.75 )
Seat 8: Button( $184.69 )
Seat 10: SB( $731.83 )

SB posts Small Blind $1
Pinked posts Big Blind $2
Dealing cards
Your cards [Hero]
Hero raises $8 [too loose? If I fold pf I'm better off]
UTG+1 folds
COfolds
Button folds
SB calls $7 [Here I put him on low-mid PP maybe AK)
BB folds
Dealing Flop [Pot $17]
SB checks
Hero bets $16
SB raises $32 [He has MinCR before as a test, not against me though]
Hero calls $16 [fold or push? Cl doesn't accomplish anything, or?. I got worried and didn't have the guts...)
Dealing Turn [pot $81] [FD and inside straight draw for me, but if he has AKc I'm toast. If he has TT or 99 I might be able to push him off the hand...)
SB bets $44 [Hello, I'm now probing since I have a weak hand (at least that was what I thought)]
Hero calls $44 [I call to look strong.]
Dealing River [Pot $169]
SB checks
Hero bets $178 [Here I can either check behind and lose to nealy everything or bet and get some chance that he'll fold. Pot is large. I push.]
SB calls $178 [He thinks very long on this.]
SB shows Qh Qs
Winner is SB $523

Except folding preflop, am I overplaying it? I think that this is my biggest leak right now. I don't get out of the hand until turn or worse, river and end up losing bigger pots than I should, but otoh I feel that if I always fold when I get bet into I'll be ran over... I have more hhs of this kind.

Any advice?

[The Golden 1]

Easy fold on flop, you just have overs. I dont like AJo UTG but I think its fine, and I much prefer a raise to a limp.
Way overanaylzing the hand, just play it simple, (call to look strong) just sounds like an excuse to justify FPS.

[Danhdan]

[ua1176]

[bobby]

[DoctorHandles]

I like AJ UTG preflop.

Don't like anything else.

[gnurulle]

[excession]

[gnurulle]

Excession:
I did this today, limped hands like AJ in EP, and it worked out rather good. I'm not saying I won a lot with it, but I probably lost less, since I could fold for a raise pf and get out of the hand early. OTOH I don't like limping, since it gives the initative to someone else, and when I'm OOP I'd like to have the initiative to give me a better shot at winning the hand if I don't hit, but that might be wishful thinking.
Good points that are worth incoroporating at least partially.

[Yliherra]

1-2 is full of donks who will call an UTG raise with any ace or practically any 2 cards. AJo is definitely a raising hand 6max utg, if you flop top pair you are usually good. Ppl are gonna be calling with A5o, JQo, etc, and your good kicker puts you in a good spot. Especially when typically weak players call from the blinds with trash its easy to extract money from them in position.

Generally you should raise hands that are good enough for raising, so you get more action when you raise monsters. Just dont get fancy at 1-2 when you get callers and miss the flop.