playing AQo that turns into a straight

[regisd]

Party Poker 1/2 Hold 'Em (10 handed) converter

Preflop: Heroine is Button with A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img].
UTG folds, UTG+1 folds, UTG+2 folds, MP1 calls, MP2 folds, MP3 folds, CO calls, Heroine raises, SB folds, BB folds, MP1 calls, CO calls.

Flop: (7.50 SB) K[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="blue">(3 players)</font>
MP1 bets, CO raises, Heroine 3-bets, MP1 caps, CO calls, Heroine calls.

Turn: (9.75 BB) 8[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="blue">(3 players)</font>
MP1 bets $2 (All-In), CO calls, Heroine raises, CO calls.

River: (14.75 BB) 9[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="blue">(3 players, 1 all-in)</font>
CO bets, Heroine raises, CO 3-bets, Heroine calls.

Final Pot: 20.75 BB
<font color="#990066">Main Pot: 12.75 BB, between MP1, CO and Heroine.
Pot 2: 8 BB, between CO and Heroine.</font>

Results in white:
<font color="white">MP1 shows Kd Kh (three of a kind, kings). Heroine shows Ad Qs (a straight, ten to ace). CO shows 5c Kc (a flush, king high) and takes it.
Heroine is sad.</font>

Thoughts on my play, here?

[Clarkmeister]

I see no motivation to raise the river.

[Chris Daddy Cool]

Bad preflop call by CO, good action in making him pay for his draw.
but when the club hits the river, i'm just calling, not raising. you got rivered, thats life.

[regisd]

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I see no motivation to raise the river.

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I'm in the middle of reading a bunch about poker -- I'm partway through reading HEPFAP and I've been reading here for a few weeks before I started posting. And so I'm getting a lot of input and information that I'm still trying to integrate into my poker game and I think what I got mentally caught up on into here is the idea of "instead of calling, raise or fold".

I was thinking that folding was too timid at that point, so I raised. Looking at the hand, his limping on the turn coupled with coming out betting and then 3-betting on the river should've told me he'd made his flush. Should I have just called and hoped he was bluffing about the flush or had made a lower straight?

[J.R.]

what I got mentally caught up on into here is the idea of "instead of calling, raise or fold".

This generally applies when there are more cards to come.

With all the heavy beating that ocurred this opponent still bets into you on the river, indicating they are not afraid. I see no reason to raise and expose youself to the 3-bet when you are up against a flush. Do you think you get called by a worse hand more than half the time you raise?