PP NL50 6max: A3o trash

[Laomedon]

Comments please, Villain seems decent, nothing out of line so far.

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $0.5 BB (6 max, 6 handed) converter

UTG ($56.1)
MP ($64.55)
CO ($47.25)
Button ($28.85)
SB ($53.1)
Hero ($109.43)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 3[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, CO calls $0.50, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, SB completes, Hero checks.

Flop: ($1.50) 2[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 3[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
SB checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets $1</font>, CO folds, <font color="#CC3333">SB raises to $2</font>, Hero calls $1.

Turn: ($5.50) T[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">SB bets $3</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to $8</font>, <font color="#CC3333">SB raises to $25</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to $106.93 (All-In)</font>, SB calls $25.60 (All-In).

River: ($163.03) 4[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players, 2 all-in)</font>

Final Pot: $163.03

Results in white below: <font color="#FFFFFF">
SB has 4c 5h (straight, five high).
Hero has 3d Ah (two pair, aces and threes).
Outcome: SB wins $106.70. Hero wins $56.33. </font>

To me this just reeks of bad poker, I broke one of the cardinal rules of NL, don't go broke in an unraised pot. Any other sage advice aside from, "his minraise on the flop was frightening?" Thanks.

[imported_anacardo]

"Don't go broke in an unraised pot" is a nice chestnut but not particularly useful. Perhaps a better one might be "don't go broke with top and third, necessarily, against lots of action on a fairly coordinated board." You've got the ace of hearts, so the only worse hand that might give you this kind of action is A2. I play it pretty much as you did until I fold to the turn reraise.