1-2NL, AJo UTG

I would bet $50. Planning on folding to a raise and checking back a lot of rivers. You can probably go even bigger than that. On a double flush-draw board there are so many hands that won't fold and it is easy for your opponent to put you on a bluff.

In 1/2, especially vs older players, you shouldn't assume AK and AQ will 3B. I would have bet $15 on the flop. To win big pots you need to build big pots. Again in 1/2, most anyone with a SD or FD is going to call, so make them pay.

My results got a lot better when I started betting bigger and often. It tilts OMCs. I win a lot of small pots, fold to counter aggression, and get paid off when I get a real hand.

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Honestly about the only thing you can discount from a call in a single raised pot at low staks is AA, KK.

Fold/Raise AJo from EP is marginal for me at low stakes and very table dependent.

Bet bigger flop. Absolute size matters in these small pots. I bet turn relatively large, probably $35, fold to a raise. If he calls, being cautious on river, particularly if flush or straight come in.

Responses so far seem consistent that H should bet big on flop & turn (50 and 35 are mentioned, with the pot being 35-40, accounting for rake/drop), & fold to a turn raise. Won't this sizing fold out worse (and MAYBE AQ) and only get calls or raises from better, given the 1-2 player tendencies mentioned?

When you bet big on this board you targeting drawing hands that are going to be inelastic to sizing (meaning they will call against almost any size you choose). Start to count how many combinations of big draws there are on this board: hands like AXss TXhh 9Xss 4Xhh QJhh QJss KJss KJhh KQhh KQss 78ss 78hh J8ss J8hh.

How big would you have to bet to get A5ss to fold on this turn? If you bet 2x pot for $80, he is probably still calling with that hand.

Don't worry about targeting hands like A8o. Villain shouldn't even have that hand from pre-flop (it should fold pre to UTG 5x raise), and the Villains that will call $10 pre with hands like A8o and A7o also probably aren't folding TP to a small overbet on a draw heavy board.

Edit: Another reason to bet big: he doesn't have that many hands you are losing to, since two pair and sets are likely to raise against the half pot sizing on a draw heavy flop. He probably does have AQ and some AK (although those might be raised pre and on the flop) and some turned A4, but that's OK. Have to value own yourself sometimes.

I ended up betting 25 (about 2/3 pot). I'm about a 4-1 favorite against a naked flush draw, and about 5-1 against an open-ended straight draw, and am giving him slightly more than 2-1 on the bet, so this seemed like a decent sizing to me.

BB raised to 80. It's 55 to call back to me, with about 137 (accounting for rake & drop) in the pot. I still beat all his draws (except A9ss), but beat nothing he's raising for value. Hero?

Call Flop, Raise Turn is usually so nutted in low stakes. Feels like a pretty easy fold unless we have some evidence that he's capable of bluffing or even semi bluffing here.

This! I convinced myself he could be overplaying a worse AXss, and called. River 8s. Now I beat virtually nothing, other than a bad bluff. He fires nearly all of his remaining stack, and I fold fairly quickly.

A few minutes later, when asked, he said he had a set of Tens. If so, I feel I got off reasonably cheap, with my only eggregious mistake calling the turn ck-raise.