Ugh...should I have laid this down?

[DCWGaming]

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $ Hero (10 handed) converter

MP3 ($108.15)
CO ($0)
Button ($203.26)
SB ($179.90)
Hero ($120.05)
UTG ($128.20)
UTG+1 ($257.10)
UTG+2 ($57.50)
MP1 ($110.50)
MP2 ($47.25)

Preflop: Hero is BB with A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]. SB posts a blind of $0.50.
<font color="#666666">5 folds</font>, MP3 calls $1, <font color="#CC3333">Button raises to $4</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to $14</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, Button calls $11.

Flop: ($31.50) 9[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets $30</font>, Button calls $188.26 (All-In), Hero calls $75.05 (All-In).

Turn: ($324.81) 6[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players, 2 all-in)</font>

River: ($324.81) K[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players, 2 all-in)</font>

Final Pot: $324.81

Button was fairly strong... I easily put him on TT-KK, maybe AA as well. I dont know if he'd make this play with JJ or QQ...Will I need to be able to fold hands like these to profit from this game?

nope. All you had left was a PSB on the turn which was going in anyway.

[djoyce003]

due to your stack size and the preflop raise not really a whole lot you could do....You might have considered raising to $20 preflop or something....sometimes i'll make a large raise here just to make them think i'm trying to buy it....the larger your preflop raise is, the less bad you can feel if they lucksack something on you.

[Skuzzy]

Why so narrow for buttons range? He can call your reraise preflop with most pairs and maybe even a few big suited connectors if he reads you for AA or KK here and he thinks you'll pay off a big hand if he hits. His position is excellent and this hand shows clearly jusyt how a big hand like AA can be severely devalued by being heads up OOP.

A pair of 88's with the 8 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] for example has 10 outs plus a longshot backdoor flush possibility. With ~62 in the pot his push if called will cost ~75 to win ~137 so roughly 1.8:1 and he'd need 1.60 (1.4 if you count a backdoor flush as an out) to make his 10 out draw push profitable.

Even any two suited connected cards could have been played here with an argument that it was correct against an ABC player who'd diagrammed his hand as AA or KK preflop while OOP on these stacks.

That said, I don't know how else to play it.