[Jorge10]

Given your position I raise with almost anything I play in this spot because I want to have the button and want to build a pot. I like the raise, but not the amount of the raise.

Also A/3 and A/2 with big pairs are usually worth raising preflop because you want your big pair to be the best hand and the only way that happens is by thinning the field. I dont know about a pot size bet at this this level though. It didnt seem to do much, so maybe a raise to 3 times the blind to build up a pot since you have A/3 and not A/2 and still need to hit the flop.

The flop is not great for your hand, but he will pot it with anything, I would probably have to call this.

Dave you seem to raise way too much with inferior hands preflop and then when the flop doesnt hit you, which is often you are stuck betting with next to nothing. Not all hands that should be raised preflop should be potted preflop, why not just make it 3 times the blind or some other number along those lines that builds pots as most of the players at this level arent folding. If you bet something along those lines you will build pots and will be able to fold if the flop sucks.

Just by looking at just any of the hands you posted, say this one. Say you start with 25 a normal buy in, you bet 1.60 preflop with A/3/Q/Q, flop comes J/10/4, 3 called you, and they all check to you, what do you do? Its probably worth a shot at picking this up right now since you showed that much aggression preflop and everyone checked, so you bet 5 bucks, 1 guy calls, turn is a 10. He checks or bets, either way you dont really know where to go from here. The problem is you are commiting a lot of chips with hands that while they deserve the raise its not always a pot raise. Now change that A/3/Q/Q to A/2/Q/Q and im all for potting it preflop.