Online tourny hand - AQ

[pswnio]

Beginning of 10k guaranteed. 3000 chips, third hand. Blinds 10/20. No notes on villain.

4 limpers, you're on cut off with AQ. Raise to 140. All fold apart from the one limper to your right.

Flop comes  .

Villain checks. Pot is 370.

Question 1 - Check or bet and if you bet, how much and why?

You bet 250. Villain calls, though not insta-call.

Turn comes  . Villain checks.

Question 2 - Do you check or bet?

You bet 450 into the pot of 870. Villain min raises.

Question 3 - Call or fold?

Question 4 - If call, what are you hoping to see on the river? If it's an obvious blank can you call a shove?
 

[temp0r]

ok. for starters you've made it really obvious what you have. so he's min raised for value with his set. the majority of the time anyway. i fold. for the record i think the preflop raise was abit ott. but thats kinda irrelevent as you're behind about 80% of the time here.

[kukushkin88]

What was the buy in? Freezeout?

[pswnio]

$30 freeze. Only played it once before, standard was very variable.

[Tragic]

Kinda looks like 44. I'd give up this early, agree pfr was pointlessly big. AQo doesn't play very well here.

[AlexMartin]

concisely.

Preflop raise too big imo, flop bet fine, turn bet- i would check to keep pot small, if bet-i fold to check raise without too much heartbreak.

If call hoping to see spade and bluff v strong opponent. But doing this <5% of time early on in $30 online mtt.

[George2Loose]

Check the turn for pot control and raise less pre flop.

[pswnio]

I need to learn to control the pot size better than I do now, key failing. Interested that consensus is too much pre flop, I find that any less than that and I'll end up facing too many opponents when I'd rather get heads up with position. I'll try playing it a little differently in future. Ta very much all.