Pushing A High...Should I have held back?

[NYGmen56]

Did I push this too much???

Party Poker 2/4 Hold'em (5 handed) converter

Preflop: Hero is BB with A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]. UTG posts a blind of $2.
UTG (poster) checks, MP folds, Button calls, SB completes, Hero checks.

Flop: (4 SB) 8[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 3[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(4 players)</font>
SB checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, UTG folds, Button calls, SB folds.

Turn: (3 BB) 2[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, Button calls.

River: (5 BB) 2[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, Button calls.

Final Pot: 7 BB

[ErrantNight]

I think thinking you're ahead on each street seems pretty reasonable here.

I think a bet is better than a check on the river (I say this because I was contemplating checking it... here I wouldn't)

i'd consider checking on the flop.

[LaggyLou]

On the river, what hands that you beat call you? King high? I don't think so. I think that if you get called then you are either splitting or losing to a small to medium PP. And I don't think a better hand is folding this river -- if he called the first deuce, he's gonna call the second. So yes, I think you pushed it too much for this tiny pot.

[zimmer879]

Check/call the river. You're far more likely to induce a bluff than to have a worse hand call.

[chesspain]

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Check/call the river. You're far more likely to induce a bluff than to have a worse hand call.

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Ditto