New to Short Handed... Am I Bad?

[POKhER]

This is an ugly hand [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
Preflop is fine,
Flop - Why are you raising(I've seen a few 2+2ers raise flops with ace high, whats that all about?)

His hand:
Looks like he's got a bit of the flop when he 3bets though, but checking the turn is strange.

Fold River
I dont think you're ace high is good so the river is a fold.

My line
I'd of probably called the flop, Seen what happend on the turn(Backdoorflush, Ace is probably clean, He may be bluffing/protecting his BB).

[JTMoney42]

The raise on the flop was to regain the initiative in the hand, plus I thought there was a decent chance at this point my ace high was good, then he 3 bet which could mean a few things,

1: he hit the flop probably top pair since most other hits will call my raise and c/r the turn....

2: he has a draw and I'm stealing, so he wants to play it aggressively to fold hands like mine

when he checks the turn, I'm again fairly sure its number 2, but it could be a middle pair or a bad jack, but I can't think he wouldn't lead the turn with these kinds of hands, I think about betting for a second, then chicken out and check with the intention of calling a non spade non straight making card.