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Yesterdays session was pretty crazy. I believe I played pretty well until my last hand of the day. First I shoukd tell you about my opponent. I have never seen a rush of cards like he had in my life. He sat at the $1/$2 NL table with $200 and within an hour he had over $1000. He was playing almost every hand and showing down winners all day. I mixed it up with him a few times and won. So here's the hand in question.

He is OTB, I am CO. I get AQo and raise to $12. He calls and we see the flop. Flop comes Ts,Jc,5h

Both check the turn comes Qs

Here is where I made my mistake I believe. I didn't have a great read on him because he was playing tons of hands. If I shove right. Here I am almost positive the hand is over. Instead I check. He bets $50 and I check raise all-in. He calls because its only 17 more to him. The river is As completing my 2 pair and also his flush. I think the right move was to shove on the turn with the Q. I hope I gave enough info for you guys. Any comments?

so you are playing with around 80$ aka 40bb?
this is definitely a HUGE mistake, given there is such a huge fish with such a big stack.
we should always reload to the maximum and try to get deep with him.

and given your stacksize you don't need to open to 6bb.
it's super easy to get all the money in postflop for 40bb anyways.
opening 6bb we lose ourselves much more money if we miss (which we do a lot of the time) than opening 3bb. and if we open 3bb and he calls, we still can get all the money in if we flop TP or better.

the only reason to open this big would be, if he calls anything preflop (which seems to be the case) and if he folds a lot postflop (which definitely doesn't seem to be the case here).

and what's your question after getting it in with TP against such a huge donk for 40bb?
you got sucked out on by the flush, nothing you can do.

but overall you did a lot of super basic things really really wrong and you should definitiely watch the videos here on DC.

So you're saying you should have shoved the turn to fold out his flush draw?

Getting his money IN the pot is what you should be focused on.

I think you should put some money online and play some micro stakes to learn the basics of the game. You play many more hands much faster and therefore learn the game faster, and it doesn't cost you hundreds of dollars.