Hand for review: AJs in CO

[Warik]

Party Poker 3/6 Hold'em (7 handed) converter

Preflop: Warik is CO with A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img].
UTG calls, MP1 calls, MP2 calls, <font color="CC3333">Warik raises</font>, Button folds, SB folds, BB calls, UTG calls, MP1 calls, MP2 calls.

Flop: (10.33 SB) 4[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 3[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 2[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="blue">(5 players) </font>
BB checks, <font color="CC3333">UTG bets</font>, MP1 calls, MP2 folds, <font color="CC3333">Warik raises</font>, BB folds, UTG calls, MP1 folds.

Turn: (7.66 BB) 6[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="blue">(2 players) </font>
UTG checks, Warik checks.

River: (7.66 BB) 5[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="blue">(2 players) </font>
<font color="CC3333">UTG bets</font>, <font color="CC3333">Warik raises</font>, <font color="CC3333">UTG 3-bets</font>, <font color="CC3333">Warik caps</font>, UTG calls.

Final Pot: 15.66 BB

[asdf1234]

You do know you're playing the board on the end, don't you?

[chesspain]

I usually try to avoid spraying chips heads-up on the river on hands where I can do no better than chop.

[joker122]

The best you can do here is a chop so why not save yourself some rake?

[BaronVonCP]

River play makes no sense.

[Mike Gallo]

You lose to a 7...you chop with anything else.

Please explain the logic behind your river action. Your opponent knows that he plays the board.

[Crumpled Ear]

I don't raise on the river. But let's say I'm drunk or having a seizure and accidently raise on the river. I don't call when he reraises. He's got a 7.

[Huskiez]

I probably fold on the flop. No real outs you can be sure of, especially in low limit Party. Why cap the river, or for that matter raise it?

[Warik]

The river was a complete FUBAR. I was looking for the 5 that I got after getting a free card on the turn and got it that I completely did not realize that we were playing the board. A stupid mistake.

My biggest question on this hand was my flop action. I didn't see what hand UTG could have reasonably called with and then bet out on the flop. I figured myself to have 10 outs - a gutshot (4 outs) and two overcards that were likely to be good (6 outs).

I had hoped the flop raise would get us heads up and get me a free card on the turn in case I didn't catch, which it did, then I screwed up on the river.

So... general consensus - should I have folded this flop?

(and my opponent did have a 7 and I lost. I will pay more attention to the board in the future. Quite an amateurish mistake to make).