AK with a 99Q Flop - Post flop play?

[Phantaroth]

** Game ID 703905532 starting - 2006-02-28 22:03:51

** $2 Freezeout:Table 1 [Sit & Go Hold 'em] (30.00|60.00 No Limit - MTT) Real Money



- finnpete sitting in seat 1 with $840.00

- hooodyhoo42 sitting in seat 2 with $2350.00 [Dealer]

- Sniper5 sitting in seat 3 with $1595.00 [Sitting out]

- charter87 sitting in seat 4 with $1160.00 [Sitting out]

- TheArgyle sitting in seat 5 with $2965.00



TheArgyle posted the small blind - $15.00

finnpete posted the big blind - $30.00



** Dealing card to TheArgyle: King of Spades, Ace of Diamonds

hooodyhoo42 called - $30.00

TheArgyle raised - $105.00

finnpete called - $105.00

hooodyhoo42 called - $105.00



** Dealing the flop: 9 of Diamonds, 9 of Spades, Queen of Spades

TheArgyle bet - $180.00

finnpete went all-in - $765.00

hooodyhoo42 folded

TheArgyle folded

finnpete mucks:

finnpete wins $1260.00 from the main pot

Thoughts: No read on the Finnpete, Hoody was Loose/aggressive.
Reasoning: Preflop, obvious raise with AK....
Post Flop: Im 1st to act and Im basically folding this hand, but I don't like to give people free pots. I figure I'll lead with a bet and see how they act, im folding to any re-raise here.

Is this a bad move or good move to make? Should I just check fold?

[taipan168]

I play it the same - I must say I would feel better if there was only one caller of your PF raise rather than two, but I think you gotta lead out here.

[swiggidy]

Standard.

This should also be your raise with TT+ (maybe 88-99 with 4 left?). You're betting about 1/2 the pot (which you should do sometimes with 99, AQ), you're getting 2:1 so if this works every-other time (which it should) it's +eV.

[GatorJH]

you absolutely played this the right way, however as Swig mentioned, make sure you play this same way with hands other than AK. That will help in disguising your hand when you play with 10's and flop a set on a 10 high board.

[LeFou]

I'll lead into 2 opps but not 3, and only 'cause the board doesn't offer much.
seems clear heshe is beating AQ, and therefore is killing you.

[Rockymv]

i'll only c-bet into more than one opp. if i have position. i check/fold this flop.

[GatorJH]

i'll only c-bet into more than one opp. if i have position. i check/fold this flop.

I like that strategy. I will have to review some of my hand histories to see how many times a C-bet against 2 or 3 (mostly 2 though as I rarely C-bet into 3 players) players from OOP hurts me.