Good laydown?

***** Hand History for Game 3282954037 *****
$2/$4 Texas Hold'em - Thursday, December 29, 22:10:38 EDT 2005
Table Bad Beat Jackpot #1105763 (Real Money)
Seat 8 is the button
Total number of players : 9
Seat 2: yanktalk ( $85.56 )
Seat 3: bobolou20 ( $73.50 )
Seat 5: abenson82 ( $79 )
Seat 6: mirmum1 ( $9 )
Seat 8: Arasirsul ( $67.50 )
Seat 9: CNN54 ( $118.25 )
Seat 10: poots415 ( $126.75 )
Seat 7: Barrin6 ( $70.90 )
Seat 4: bfitzer ( $91 )
CNN54 posts small blind [$1].
poots415 posts big blind [$2].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Barrin6 [ 9d Ad ]
yanktalk folds.
bobolou20 folds.
bfitzer folds.
abenson82 calls [$2].
mirmum1 folds.
Barrin6 calls [$2].
Arasirsul folds.
CNN54 calls [$1].
poots415 checks.
** Dealing Flop ** [ 8c, Ts, Ah ]
CNN54 bets [$2].
gatorgal7 has joined the table.
poots415 folds.
abenson82 calls [$2].
Barrin6 raises [$4].
CNN54 raises [$4].
abenson82 folds.
Barrin6 folds.
CNN54 does not show cards.
CNN54 wins $20

CNN54 has been playing well

[hobbsmann]

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Preflop: Hero is CO with 9/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, A/images/graemlins/diamond.gif.
<font color="#666666">3 folds</font>, MP2 calls, <font color="#666666">1 folds</font>, Hero calls, <font color="#666666">1 folds</font>, SB completes, BB checks.

Flop: (4.00 SB) 8/images/graemlins/club.gif, T/images/graemlins/spade.gif, A/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="#0000FF">(4 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">SB bets</font>, BB folds, MP2 calls, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises</font>, <font color="#CC3333">SB 3-bets</font>, MP2 folds, Hero folds.

Final Pot: 5.00 BB.


FYP.

First off, I raise preflop. Second I think you should peel a turn before you fold and consider calling down.

[hemstock]

Not at all. You HAVE to see the turn.
And folding Top pair HU isn't the greatest thing to do.

Raise preflop to isolate the limper, your hand is probably better than the avg of his range of hands, and you have position. Plus, you want the blinds to fold to get dead money in the pot.

If you had raised preflop, you'd have defined your hand more, which would make the flop fold reasonable. Since you limped in, he won't give you credit for a good ace, and would 3bet with a wider range of hands, making a calldown correct.