We hold AQo in MP. Utg+1 (fish) limps. We are in 16th of 107 with about 50bb behind (so most are short stacked), but both villains have >30bb.
We raise to 3bbs.
Folds to BB, who calls. UTG+1 calls.
Flop:
10, 5, 4 rainbow. Check, check, I bet around 1/4 pot. Call, call.
Turn:
K (still rainbow)
Check, check, check.
River: brick
Check, bet pot-size, fold, fold.
Should I have sized up flop? Bet turn? Or did I play this ok?
We have 9 high. Give up because opponent's range is too good (opened as LJ, cash game)? I am not fully sure, I feel I would usually try to bluff here usually, but maybe the board is too wet, and they are too likely to have something even after checking flop.
HAND:
Seat 1: Player 1 (hero) (2085) [Qc As]
Seat 2: Player 2 (1347) [?? ??]
*** BLINDS ***
All post 15 (ante)
Seat 1 (hero): posts small blind 50
Seat 2: posts big blind 100
*** PREFLOP ***
Seat 3: folds 0
Seat 4: folds 0
Seat 5: folds 0
Seat 6: folds 0
Seat 1 (hero): calls 50
Seat 2: checks 0
*** FLOP ***
Board: [Ac 7s 7c]
Seat 1 (hero): checks 0
Seat 2: checks 0
*** TURN ***
Board: [Ac 7s 7c Qh]
Seat 1 (hero): bets 100
Seat 2: raises 345
Seat 1 (hero): calls 245
*** RIVER ***
Board: [Ac 7s 7c Qh Qs]
Seat 1 (hero): checks 0
Seat 2: checks 0
*** SUMMARY ***
Total Board: [Ac 7s 7c Qh Qs]
Seat 1 (hero) won 520 chips (Final: 2605)
My ideas: betting the river myself after opponent's re-raise on the turn looks absurdly strong, and I doubted villain would call considering how wide his range was and the weak action preflop and flop. I figured I had to let him try to buy the pot. However, showdown hands like Kx, 88/99 etc, may check, but I think mostly he should be betting here. Did I make the right choice and just had a bad result? Maybe there was just no way to make money. Also, normally would raise with this hand pre but this opponent had played extremely few hands so far and I wanted to see a flop (this is also likely stupid).