For once I fold...but maybe I shouldn'ta?

[Georgia Avenue]

Interesting hand last night at a 1-2 nl home game…
Aggressive player, but pretty solid, is on my left (he might even read these forums…anyway, I hope not!) We both have about 250. In mp with AQd. There is a live straddle, so there’s 4 extra $$ in the pot. I limp, (bleh, I know, but this is a limpy game…) he raises 20. Big raise right? But not too unusual for him, he might just be trying to isolate the straddler who’s a pretty loose player.

Folded back to me. I call. Probably mistake #2. I always am tempted to take flops against tricky players heads-up, and sometimes this kills me.

Flop Q63 all clubs. First to act…I bet 50. He ponders ponders, feints like he’s gonna fold…calls. To me it seemed like a real decision but it mighta been Hollywood.

Turn: j clubs. YUCK. I check, he goes all in, I fold.

He later claimed to have AA with-OUT the A of clubs, and that he “knew” I had AQ without a club. I’m starting to suspect that he had 99 or something, and that he just sensed my weakness re: the 4th club…

What do y’all think: what does this pattern suggest that he had?

Should I have bet the turn? I really thought he was thinking about calling on the flop cuz he had a club, but that might have just been defeatism…

Maybe I should have check raised the flop?

Dunno. I’m new to NL ring games…In limit this hand’s pretty easy…Raise all the way! Heheh.